Caregivers (parents or any adults) may
also spank a child when, after being disciplined using another method, deliberately repeat the same behavior, as if to antagonize the parent.
Not exact matches
They
also are inclined to
spank their
children a bit more, though liberal Protestant men do their fair share of that as well, especially if they are regular church attenders.
«The study
also found that mothers who said their
children were «fussy» babies were more likely to
spank them at ages 1, 2 and 3.
Alma
also notes that this is certainly not the first time a study has showed the negative effects
spanking has on a
child.
I, like Megan,
also am saddened when I see
spanking being likened to abusive parenting — there are many who
spank their
children as Megan said, as a thoughtful, controlled part of their parenting, making sure the
child knows why they are being
spanked, and making sure the parent is calm and collected.
She
also says that
spanking can lead to
child abuse, and depression and violence...
It
also convinced countless parents that
spanking or screaming at their
children — or quietly humiliating them — could have serious consequences.
While it may be that corporal punishment leads to decreased aggression, it is
also technically possible that decreased aggression in
children leads parents to
spank (perhaps parents
spank because the
children are not aggressive enough?)
Proponents
also argue that occasionally
spanking a
child who is acting unsafely or terribly does not make them
child abusers or parents with anger problems.
It's
also important to consider that as a
child gets older, they are likely to get angry at their parent for
spanking them.
«If the mother sees this fussiness as willful misbehavior and begins verbally punishing or
spanking, rather than empathizing with the
child, the
child's behavior deteriorates into more tantrums and other frustrating behavior,» said Markham, who
also offers advice at AhaParenting.com.
These parents
also tend to believe in the effectiveness of
spanking or believe the
child is at fault in a given situation, the study said.
What's more, those few years that parents are «allowed» to
spank are
also the years that our
children are forming lasting mental impressions of us.
According to an April 2016 study published in the Journal of Family Psychology, which studied more than 50 years on data on 160,000
children,
children who were
spanked are
also more likely to exhibit «increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties that last into adulthood.»
I understand that
spanking is a touchy subject, but I
also think that we shouldn't always say that
spanking is «hitting» or» beating» our
children.
I
also agree with that
spanking or any kind of physical hitting will teach
children to use violence to solve situations.
Research
also reveals that
children who are
spanked or yelled at in their childhood have higher chances of being depressed and having behavioral issues.
Spanking children is
also believed to increase their risk of becoming adults who are aggressive, antisocial, and who abuse their own spouse and
children.
It
also appears that the effects of
spanking children depend on parenting style.
While it may be that corporal punishment leads to decreased aggression, it is
also technically possible that decreased aggression in
children leads parents to
spank (perhaps parents
spank because the
children are not aggressive enough?)
She
also notes common language includes the term «beat» and «whip», and so the use of such language and the use of an object to
spank a
child that Baumrind objects to, while possibly abusive, are
also far from uncommon.
Children's behavior was controlled by the means of guilt, threats and
spanking but
also other forms of punishments like being locked up in dark closets or dark rooms.
In a pair of analyses based on NSCAW, Cecilia Casaneueva and colleagues showed that about one - third of parents with low parenting skills had experienced domestic violence.24 Such violence was
also associated with harsher parenting:
children over the age of eighteen months were more likely to be
spanked if their parents were facing domestic violence.25 But parents who had once experienced domestic violence, but had been able to put it behind them, did not show elevated rates of impaired or violent parenting.26 The parenting of women currently suffering interpersonal partner violence is significantly worse than that of women who have faced it in the past, suggesting that the context of the violence is creating the problems in parenting and
child conduct problems and that its cessation may be a more important contributor to
child outcomes than parent instruction.
I
also believe that negative consequences need to be taught and shown to
children and sometimes the only way to do that is to give a
spanking.
Arnall has
also written Discipline Without Distress: 135 tools for raising caring, responsible
children without time - out,
spanking, punishment or bribery, a handbook available in most Calgary bookstores.
Spanking's negative effects
also followed the
children into adulthood.
Green and Gibbs (2010)
also include «harsh punitive discipline,» such as «scolding,
spanking, restraining, grabbing» (p. 227) as triggers of disruptive behaviors in
children.