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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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    author Leonard Pitts Jr., argues that mild corporal punishment is a good strategy for parents. Pitts feels that corporal punishment establish discipline and structure and without it we would be raising a generation of ungrateful, undisciplined, brats. But not too many people agree with corporal punishment, citing that it is another form of abuse. Pitts Jr., the goes into details in his essay about the differentiating the difference between mild corporal punishment, and actual physical abuse. In support

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    many views of the past relating to corporal punishment have changed significantly. During my readings I read things that instantly stood out to me. The first being how many issues and their solutions revolved around religion. John Wesley, was the founder of the Methodist Movement, and he believed that children were born with sin and that it was the parental duty to discipline the unruly child, starting at an early age. During this time period, corporal punishment was a common practice. Wesley used

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    When a child gets out of line most parents in America will turn to their child and inflict a physical punishment on their child. Corporal punishment of children is seen to many people as being a great measure to stop the inappropriate behavior and to keep their children in line. Corporal punishment is socially accepted and widely practiced. Much like corporal punishment is assault. If an adult were to hit another adult that is assault which by the means of the law could put someone in jail because

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    Should Parents Be Allowed To Spank Their Children? The inhuman act of corporal punishment at home that is discouraged globally by a number of pressure groups and social welfare organizations should be completely banned, and parents should be allowed to spank their children. Physical violence practiced on children also known as corporal punishment has been discouraged globally by a number of pressure groups and social organizations for a number of reasons with serious consequences for violators

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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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    pros of corporal punishment at home. One of the most common strategies used by parents to alter long-term behavior of their children is corporal punishment, commonly referred to as spanking. According to people that use this style of correcting the behavior of their kids, corporal punishment is a form of negative reinforcement. If done correctly and with the right limitation, this will be effective to brainwash discipline in the minds of the children. People who believe corporal punishment say that

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    The Effects of Spanking Children Parents have been finding new ways to discipline their children for decades, but one form of child rearing has endured through out the years as the go to punishment, spanking. Although spanking children has been around for a long time, it is a form of abuse used to punish bad behavior in children, the term spanking dissociates hitting kids and abusing them. Spanking children is extremely popular in the United States with almost all parents participating in this cruel

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    PreAP 9th Grade English 9 December 2015 Corporal Punishment: Its Harm and its Alternatives Corporal punishment is one of the most common forms of discipline used in history to straighten out unruly children. It is defined as any non-injurious bodily punishment that is performed with the intention of correcting perceived misbehavior (Paolucci and Violato 198). Since the very late 1970s, research and studies have increasingly shown that corporal punishment, even if it is physically non-injurious

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    children, thus well behave adults. By definition, the word discipline means “ the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience”(oxford dictionary). Parents can implement several methods of discipline, and most commonly than not, one those methods chosen by parents include corporal punishment, which can include hitting, smacking, slapping, striking a child with your hand or with an object. The method used to discipline is completely a parent’s

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