I have spoken out against corporal punishment ever since I was an adult. It is a sick twisted child rearing practice that should be condemned. Sadly, the majority of adults WANT the right to hit children, even the 'A smack on the bum crowd' are promoting highly dysfunctional behaviour that is a big part of why our societies are so dysfunctional to begin with. There is more to physical abuse than just the physical pain, probably the worst repercussion is that such children grow up to think it is OK to hit children. The fallout out from corporal punishment is far larger than most people realise, it is probably the Number 1 cause for our modern day dysfunctional society. Children are the most vulnerable and powerless people in our society, they have almost NO political, societal or financial power to change any abuse they suffer at the hands of adults.
Do you have any evidence to back this up?
Seems to me that there is far less corporal punishments at home and in schools than there was say 60-70 years ago.
Do kids today have more respect than those raised in 60-70 years ago? Are they better behaved at school? Is there less crime amongst our youth?
Obviously, the answer to all of the above is a resounding NO.
Liberals have made corporal punishment illegal at school, yet kids are less respectful to adults generally, youth crime rates are through the roof and the behavior of children at school is terrible. A lot of this, in my opinion, is that there is no longer any real recourse when they misbehave.
It's the same school of thought that dictates that things like the death penalty needs to he humane, neat and tidy. So if some poor child killer takes a while to die or suffers during an execution, there is an outcry. Yet there is no logical reason that physical pain needs to be kept out of punishment. Why shouldn't execution hurt? Is there a reason?
For punishment to have any impact, it needs to be something that induces psychological of physical discomfort. A timeout induces psychological discomfort. Or to put it another way, it is a really, really mild form of psychological torture. Or to put it another way, you are fucking with your kids headspace when you do it. I just don't buy that psychological methods are any different from physical methods. They need to be carefully administered, short, sharp shocks that get your kid to understand that certain behaviours are not to be tolerated.
Physical punishment and psychological punishment are the same thing. They need to be administered carefully. You don't lock your kids in solitary for 6 months and you don't beat them to a pulp.
