Corporal Punishment 1 Running head: Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children

Exercise 1 Corporal Punishment on Children Erika D. Stewart SOWK 300 Tuskegee University September 26, 2011

Article 1 Harriet L. MacMillan,* MD; Mi. (1999). Slapping and spanking in childhood. Slapping and spanking in childhood. Retrieved from jstor In this article, background information, methods, interpretation, and results were given. The background discusses the prevalence of and outcomes associated with a history of slapping and spanking in childhood. This article is touching bases with all the things that happen each and everyday. The methods discussed the measures included a selfadministered questionnaire with a question about frequency of slapping and spanking during childhood, as well as an interviewer-administered questionnaire to measure psychiatric disorder. The results were based on the majority of respondents indicated that they had been slapped or spanked, or both, by an adult during childhood sometimes (33.4%) or rarely(40.9%); 5.5% reported that this occurred often. The remainder (20.2%) reported never experiencing these behaviors and situations.
Article 2 Salt, H. S. (1905). The Ethics of Corporal Punishment. International Journal of Ethics, 16(1), 77-88. Retrieved from http://tulibrarydb.tuskegee.edu

In this article was mainly talking about different definitions of corporal punishment and there meanings. The author spoke about several different definitions of corporal punishment and how they relate to each other. One of the definitions that were address in this article was the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction or control of the childs behavior. meaning that inflicting pain on a child doesnt really help them. Most parents and will probably agree that there is a very big difference between tapping a child on the hand or buttocks than using a belt, slapping, punching, or using any other object or extreme force when you discipline a children which a lot of people feel like they can discipline their children how they feel, and their way of discipline them is the right way.
Article 3 Ellison, C. G., & Sherkat, D. E. (1993). Conservative Protestantism and support for corporal punishment. American Sociological Review, 58(1), 131-144. Retrieved from http://tulibrarydb.tuskegee.edu: The American society explains what corporal punishment is positively that is related to the frequency and intensity of acting out and behavior disorders. Researchers have found that children who are spanked tend to have mental problems and are at a greater risk for depression as well as a host of other running psychological adjustment problems. Spanking also leads to an abusive person. When a child grows up in a home where spanking is okay then they feel as though hitting is normal which makes them become abusive. This does not mean every child spanked will have some type of problem but it does affect a large number of them. Article 4 Straus, M. (1996). Spanking and the Making of a Violent Society. PEDIATRICS, 98(4), 837-842. Retrieved from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/4/837

Corporal Punishment 3 In this article it informs individuals what is going on and how it can be compared to other situations. It persuades one that spanking can result and can increase in a higher crime rate in society. In this article it show statistics, and statistics shows that of the murder rate per 100,000 people from other countries as well as the United States has to do with children who were spanked. They believe that this could, promote more domestic abuse, as the children get older and more fighting in schools, because that is the way they feel people are suppose to get punished. This article is useful because it shows how aggressive American culture is as well how the concept of spanking and be misinterpreted and taken into a different context. Article 5 Benjet, C., & Kazdin, A. E.: Spanking Children the Controversies, findings, and new directions Retrieved from tuskegee.edu The purpose of this article spanking children and the controversies findings is to explain the difference between spanking and child abuse, child neglect ,and the effect it has on a childs life. The goal of this article is to stimulate research questions that will allow a process of a resolution. Spanking in this article is hitting a child with their open hand, on the buttocks, face, arms and other human body parts. The public attitude of spanking suggests growing in such a high level that everything in the new generation is changing rapidly.