Kamran's Essay Introduction

Physical Punishment:

Is it a good way to discipline children?

Physical punishment is an act of hitting, beating or using some other ways that cause someone to have physical pain. It is usually enforced to some one due to his/her wrong doings or unacceptable behaviour. Physical punishment exists in my forms in our society. Some times it is legal and at the other time it is illegal. For example law enforcement agency are legally allowed to give physical punishment to criminals at some extent, while punishing children in schools or at home without any strong and unavoidable reason is illegal. Parents usually give physical punishment to their children in order to discipline them. It could be in many forms, such as spanking, slapping, grabbing, and shoving a child roughly with intense force (Wauchope and Straus 1990).

In this essay, I am going to look at physical punishment used in schools by teachers and in homes by parents. I shall look into the effects of physical punishment on the lives of children. Finally, I shall conclude this essay to say whether it is a good way to discipline children through physical punishment or it is an old formula not working any more.

References:

Murray A. Straus “Discipline and Deviance: Physical Punishment of Children and Violence and Other Crime in Adulthood” Social Problems, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 133-154