What got me started on this assignment was an article I had read a little while back which caught my eye. Its headline reads “Spanking can cause long-term harm” with the sub-heading “Study: Risks outweigh any benefit of instant obedience.” After reading through the report it immediately came to mind that corporal punishment was a social norm in its own right but not so clear and cut about how widely accepted it was. Then I thought about the points brought up and how I could apply them to my own life and experiences. Basically, the article is a brief report about a certain Elizabeth Gershoff who has recently taken it upon herself to undertake a large-scale meta-ana

When discipline gets to the point where the adult is almost aroused or gets a buzz off of punishing their child to the point where it becomes abusive then this is where I agree with Ms. Gershoff, because children are sponges. I can see George Herbert Mead stepping forth and presenting his “Stages of the Self” model, saying we have to be very careful what we say and especially what we do around the wee ones. This is the period where we must instill our values in the children which is very important, for they carry on our legacy. Our kids will grow up to be like us, so if we beat them they will most likely be damaged by it, and beat our grandkids, unless they take their rage out on our old crippled bodies first.

lysis of 88 studies spanning throughout 62 years of research. Throughout her research, which was published in the July issue of Psychological Bulletin she states that she had

Even though Ms. Gershoff is not a big fan of spanking children, she does admit that just because a child is spanked, it doesn’t mean that the child will grow up with psychological damage. “Not all children who are spanked will have these negative outcomes,” she says. “Most of us are evidence of that. Most of us were spanked and we’re fine.” I myself have not had the pleasure of reading all of Ms. Gershoff’s research, though I do think that I can come to this conclusion. In a report published by the Nation Council on Family Relations, in a study of 998 mothers with children between the ages of 2and 14, 67% report using some form of corporal punishment on their children. Just for the sake of argument let’s use

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