Essays on Corporal punishment

Should parents use corporal punishment? There are many method to solve the discipline behavior. Corporal punishment is one of them. Some countries all around the world were banned physical punishment because it make child fear and and other don’t. Hitting child in order to make them understand rights and wrongs may be correct for some…

As a child everything was new, every day felt like an adventure. As you got older though you decided to go on fewer adventures having less interest in the new things of the world. Imagine yourself at home, watching cartoons with your mother and you always desired to put something into the power outlet next…

In America, approximately 60% of adults continue to approve of physical punishment to discipline children, in spite of compelling evidence that it does not work. Corporal punishment makes things worse and there are other, effective alternatives to spanking. Corporal punishment is the use of physical force with the intention to cause the child to experience…

I believe that most people do understand and realize the difference between the definition of corporal punishment and parents teaching, punishing or disciplining a child. To a child there is a huge difference between mommy or daddy spanking them and the teacher hitting them with a ruler or paddling them. Children understand that their parents…

Historically, we can see evidence of how thinking such as this was applied to various situations in Britain. In the past corporal punishment was seen an acceptable form of discipline not only in the classroom. The Royal Navy was infamous for its use of tyrannical and agonising forms of punishment. In the late seventeenth century,…

Parents of different cultures in our society are searching for the perfect solution to raise happy, healthy, children. The controversial issue of using corporal punishment is constantly being disputed by many different societies. In 1980 a highly credentialed group of sociologists published, Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family. With eight years of gathering…

Corporal punishment is the most commonly used method to discourage misconduct among students in schools (Almond, 2008). It involves physically striking or causing exercise-induced pain as a formal means of correcting mistakes and disciplining students (Almond, 2008). While it has been abolished in many parts of Europe, it still exists in the United States and…

Physically disciplining children is becoming a frowned upon practice amongst experts in child development and sociology. Despite this, 71% of parents approve spanking children [Dom101], and 94% of children who are three and four years old are disciplined with some form of corporal punishment[Mur991]. Although corporal punishment is still a common discipline technique for parents,…

Walking past the television, you overhear the news anchor convey an appalling number of reported child abuse cases. Dazed and confused, you take a seat for a brief moment in an attempt to understand how such a horrific number of violent, unethical acts could be committed and how the depraved people who commit them could…

Who wants Corporal Punishment back in our schools? No? Well, this is why I believe that this should not be accepted in our Australian schools because Australia has already dealt with corporal punishment, causes psychological issues and teaches bad habits. Corporal punishment is defined as the use of physical force towards a child for the…