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    of the short and long-term benefits of corporal punishment, there is plenty of opposition to corporal punishment for a variety of reasons. Starting as early as the 1960s, corporal punishment has been said to be “unacceptably degrading punishment” (Lenta 2012: 692), “harsh discipline” (Mayer and Blome, 2013: 145) and psychologically distressing (McLloyd et. al 2007:166). Opposition to corporal punishment stresses the long-term effects of corporal punishment such as children externalizing their behaviors

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    Detentions, suspensions, or corporal punishment are usually their options and most students hope to decrease their class time when they misbehave and detentions and suspensions accomplish this. Corporal punishment is the spanking of students which creates fear. School punishments are ineffective and need to be altered toward counseling techniques between the student committing the offense and the teacher to lower student misconduct. Background Controversy takes place when school systems facilitate familiar

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    Beaten Black and Blue Bad choices call for discipline, but spanking won’t do the trick. This method of discipline, also called corporal punishment, is commonly used in the southern states, such as the following: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming (“The Center”). Discipline is supposed to teach children right from wrong

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    negative effects. The issue of child abuse has been brought up many times in these arguments. There is a fine line between an acceptable spanking and child abuse. Corporal punishment may be thought of as, “the good old days,” by many adults, but kids today measure up, and might even surpass what kids used to be like. Corporal punishment may be favored at home or might be thought of as a good tool to teach children respect.

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    Disciplining a Child: Corporal Punishment vs Non-Corporal Punishment “You’re going to get it when we get home!” “Stop it, right now!” “Sit in the time-out chair for ten minutes until you can behave!” Phrases like these have been used by parents whether they believe in corporal punishment or non-corporal punishment. Children are ingenious at pushing their parent’s buttons, whether it is verbally or by inappropriate behaviors that they are encouraged not to do. Parents become frustrated, angry,

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    The role of punishment in teaching. Punishment can be defined as part of disciplinary measure that can be inflicted on any person with the aim of creating positive behavioral change? In order words, punishment can be considered a sub-aspect of discipline. At the level of schools, “many parents and teachers see punishment as part of discipline” (D.H. Sailor, 2010), based on discipline. Some people however, do not see punishment as part of discipline. They strongly uphold that “discipline does not

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    is besides that is reasonable chastisement. The meaning of reasonable chastisement is stated as “Parents have the right to make choices about reasonable punishments, but there is a fine line between "reasonable chastisement" (which is a defence in law) and assault (which is a criminal offence) (http://www3.hants.gov.uk/chastisement-and-punishment may, 2015)” A smack is considered reasonable chastisement if it’s, done by an open hand and not a closed fist or any sort of implement, it is to be administered

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    Wounds From Corporal Punishment Are Deeper Than They Appear In our culture, it is generally agreed upon that no man should hit his own wife, but whether a man should have the right to hit his own child is often debated. The use of corporal punishment on children does not seem like a serious issue to most parents, but the negative effects it has on a child’s developing mind is irrefutable. When a child is disciplined by means of beating and spanking, they are being taught that that problems can be

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    In a world where corporal punishment would have too much power, policemen hand out hangings instead of tickets. Rather a hard verbal warning for that stolen dress at the mall, everyone would get beheadings. As a substitute for solitary confinement, after-school detentions were issued to the drug cartels sneaking opioids into the country. We can all agree forms of punishments such as The Green Mile, The Cat of Nine Tails, and middle school detentions are all too harsh of punishments for even the worst

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    Spanking, also referred to as corporal punishment, is defined as: an act of slapping, especially on the buttocks as a punishment for children. According to Alvin Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School, “Researchers have found that children who are spanked show higher rates of aggression and delinquency in childhood than those who were not spanked. As adults, they are more prone to depression, feelings of alienation, use of violence toward a spouse, and lower economic

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