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    can spank them. Hitting your child is a form of punishment used throughout history. The most common way people discipline their kids is by Corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is defined as a punishment that can be spanking or slapping a child bare handed. You may also use a belt, paddle, or any flat object to punish the child so that they are in an uncomfortable position or physical pain. Corporal punishment is referred to as physical punishment. This happens when a child misbehaves and the parent

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    surrounding any child when he recalls the minute that he been submitted to corporal punishment. Corporal is military word originally; its means physical punishment .Teachers in united state allow to use corporal punishment with their students, starting from age four to eighteen

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    the screaming stop. Around the family, some of the customers sigh in relief, while others shoot disapproving looks towards the father; appalled that he spanked the boy. Corporal punishment is an effective way to discipline children that benefits social interactions, child behavior, and lowers the crime rate. Corporal punishment allows for children to interact with others as in an appropriate manner. Children who are not disciplined do not understand how their actions will impact those around them

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    ARTICLE SUMMARY 1. The major research question was if corporal punishment affects development by altering (reducing) gray matter volume (GMV). The popular article shows the intent of this research by emphasizing the fact that they wanted to see the other negative internal effects of corporal punishment. By stating that researchers wanted to see how corporal punishment affects the brain but “not only in an “I’m traumatized” kind of way,” the author shows that the research was geared at possibly creating

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    disciplining a child and corporal punishment is one of the main ones. Corporal punishment means the intention of giving pain to the body for purposes of punishment and it includes pinching, shaking, hitting with objects and forcing to stand for long time. Family researchers define corporal punishment as the use of physical force to cause children to experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction and control of behavior. This essay is going to talk about how corporal punishment affect the child

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    Corporal punishment affects a person’s self esteem. Corporal punishment can negatively affect the parent and the child, leaving them wondering the level of love from their parents. Corporal punishment is illegal in some places, Some countries don’t allow and even punish those who allow corporal punishment. A parent could go to jail for spanking their child, hitting their children with belts, flyswatters, paddles, ect. Corporal punishment can sometimes be very unnecessary, Not every bad behavior needs

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    not child abuse. Spanking is a Type of corporal punishment. Corporal Punishment is inflicting pain to a child whether its whipping, spanking, pinching, flicking, smacking, using iron swatches or iron cords., hair brushes , belts ,and how many times these things are applied (“Spare the Rod is Spanking”). Spanking is associated with poorer school performance and anti-social behavior. There are many alternative to hitting kids for punishments. Spanking children often leads to more

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    Is corporal punishment wrong or is it a vital tool for disciplining our children which without our society will ultimately continue to degrade its self and cause our fore fathers to roll over in their graves? Corporal punishment with in reason is not abuse and should be considered a vital tool that is not out dated and should be used widely and constantly through out the previous and upcoming generations of man kind. Today with the mostly discontinued use of corporal punishment and generic discipline

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    Corporal punishment, or the act of hitting a child as punishment, has been a topic of debate for many decades now and even though media and most of the country frown upon it, it is still legal in all 50 states. So why is Corporal Punishment still legal? Well, According to the Massachusetts Supreme judicial court, as long as the hitting is “light”, meant to safeguard the child’s well being, and causes no harm, then it's deemed acceptable. While many parents have accepted this outcome that does not

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    centuries the use of corporal punishment has been an accepted form of discipline worldwide and was seen as an appropriate way of “eliciting behavioral compliance that was conceptually distinct from physical abuse” (Durrant & Ensom, 2012, p. 1373). The last 20 years, however, there has been a dramatic shift in this ideal among the international community. The early 1990’s ushered in numerous research studies that suggested a negative correlation between the use of corporal punishment and emotional, mental

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