Keith William A.

Caacbay 12 STEM 02P

Physical Punishment for Children Should Be Considered a Crime

Nowadays children’s are doing many things, things that parents may find it a

bad behavior or a thing that may break the rule. And parents may act to

discipline their child by doing some punishment so that they may not do it again.

Sometimes parents resort to physical punishment by hurting their child, they

use force in disciplining their children’s through punching, hitting their back

with a belt and many other ways that may inflict physical pain to the child. By

doing these things, children’s suffer from these and may have bruises, bone

fractures, cuts and any injury caught from the damage inflicted by their parents

or any adult person. It may be fatal or not fatal depends on how the physical

punishment is done, but when they doing it over and over again it may be

dangerous to the child. And physical punishment should be considered a crime

so that adult persons may be charged and also be punished by their act.

Physical Punishment should be a crime because of it may be dangerous to the

children’s. Parents or any adults that continuously doing this behavior are just

free and not being punished by the law while children’s are suffering from the

physical punishment they have received from their parents or any adult. As a

child their bones or bodies are not yet strong to endure any physical punishment

even if their bones or their bodies are strong they are still a child and it may

leave the child traumatized. Child should not be handling these kind of

punishment given by their parents or adults, these child’s should be enjoying

their life playing with toys, outside or with their friends, instead of these things
the children’s are having personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder,

dissociative disorders, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, eating disorders,

substance abuse and aggression. Physical punishment done by parents or adults

to children’s may affect their life as they grow, it may destroy their life because

of physical punishment that is why it should be considered as a crime.

There are other types of child discipline that parents or adults may use to

discipline their child aside from physical punishment. Positive discipline is based

on praise and encouragement, children’s are more to learn from their mistakes

and may not do it again. Gentle discipline focuses on preventing problems,

parents managing their own emotions while addressing a child’s misbehavior.

Boundary-based discipline focuses on setting limits and making the rules clear

up front. Behavior modification focuses on positive and negative consequences.

Good behavior is reinforced with praise or rewards while misbehavior is

discouraged through the use of ignoring and negative consequences, like the loss

of privileges. Emotion coaching is a five step discipline process that focuses on

teaching kids about feelings. When kids understand their feelings, they can

verbalize them rather than act on them. Kids are taught that their feelings are

okay and parents help teach them appropriate ways to deal with their emotions.

When physical punishment is considered as a crime, parents will now use this

type of child discipline. They may resort to this kind of disciplines than physical

punishment and may leave smiles to the face of children’s than making the child

cry and be emotionally scarred for life, so it is for the best that physical

punishment should be considered as a crime.

There is a senate bill in the Philippines which is an act to promote positive, non-

violent discipline of children, prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment,

humiliating and degrading treatment. It says that the State shall defend the right

of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special

protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation, and other

conditions prejudicial to their development. Now physical punishment is illegal

and can be considered as a crime and offenders may have a penalty and their

parental authority may be gone to the children.

Now physical punishment for children should be considered as a crime because

it only brings suffering to the children that may destroy their lives. By destroying

their lives the future of this children’s are gone. And if this children’s should be

a parent one day, they will do the same to their child’s because they will follow

the same to their parents or they will not. Everyone should consider that physical

punishment for children is a crime so that no children will experience physical

punishment again but will experience love and happiness in their lives and

everyone will live happily ever after.