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How do children raised with corporal punishment develop?
Many studies have shown that physical punishment — including spanking, hitting and other means of causing pain — can lead to increased aggression, antisocial behavior, physical injury and mental health problems for children.
Does corporal punishment erode the quality of the mother child interaction in early childhood?
Social control theory suggests that parental corporal punishment erodes the parent–child relationship 541 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Page 4 and in turn decreases children’s motivation to internalize parents’ values and those of the society, which in turn results in low self-control (Hirschi, 1969).
Is it illegal to wash a kids mouth out with soap?
Forcing anything — certainly anything toxic, such as soap — into the mouth of a child is abuse. Parents should make sure the child knows not only that lying is wrong, but that the truth will set them free.
How prevalent is corporal punishment in the home?
I found a number of sources ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) with slightly different statistics but all make it clear how prevalent corporal punishment in the home is. Data from the 1970’s revealed that more than 90\% of families in the United States used corporal punishment in the home at least once.
Can corporal punishment be initiated when the caregiver is calm?
And available research doesn’t support that corporal punishment is able to be planned or initiated when the caregiver is calm, which is integral to the recommendations of most pro-spanking resources.
Should corporal punishment be allowed in schools?
Many states still permit the use of corporal punishment with an instrument in schools; on the other hand, the American Academy of Pediatrics has proposed that “striking a child with an object” is a type of physical punishment that “should never be used” and has recommended that corporal punishment be abolished in schools.