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Persuasive Speech: Corporal Punishment
Topic: Should Corporal Punishment be used by parents on young children?
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: I want to persuade my audience that corporal punishment should not be a way of punishment and to use other effective punishments.
Thesis Statement: Corporal punishment tends to perpetuate a cycle of child abuse.

Introduction I.Attention Grabber: “Corporal punishment is the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury, for the purpose of correction or control of the child’s behavior.” (Cope, Kristin, C. “The Age of Discipline: The Relevance of Age to the Reasonableness of Corporal Punishment” Law & Contemporary Problems.” II. Topic and Connect to Audience: Spanking was once the most common form of punishment for a misbehaving child, even over 75% of this class has received some form over corporal punishment. As times have changed, so has society’s perspective on the moral ethics of using physical harm as a punishment for a child who has been ornery. III. Your Credibility (How do you know this): I have considered and explored through the many stories, facts & statistics, and cases on Corporal punishment. IV. Thesis and Preview (tell them what main points are 1-3): The problem is that corporal punishment tends to perpetuate a cycle of child abuse. Most parents believe that they are not harming their children, that they were spanked and they turned out okay. This tends to cause harm to children both mentally and physically. The solution for stopping these shocking facts I have discovered through research is to turn to alternative punishment tactics.
Transitional Phrase: Not, you may be wondering why corporal punishment tends to perpetuate a cycle of child abuse.

Body I. Main Point: The use of corporal punishment often creates a series of child abuse. A. Child abuse “when a parent or caregiver,



Cited: Communications, 2012. Web. 16 Nov. 2014. “Cycle of Abuse.” Cycle of Abuse. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2013, Web of Corporal Punishment” Law& Contemporary Problems.” 2nd ed. Vol 73. 2010 167-88 Punishment On Children.” Law & Contemporary Problems 73.2 (2010): 31-56 Science & Business Media B.V., 2010. 401-12. Academic Search Science & Business Media B.V., 2010 Complete. Web. 16 Nov. 2014. Search Complete. Web. 16 Nov. 2014. Nov. 2014.

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