Avoiding Physical Punishment In Child Rearing

Avoiding corporal punishment during child rearing is a "protection measure" to destroy or relieve children. Whether violence, indignation, anger, or fear is worth the risk when hitting him or her. Regardless of whether you support or oppose the use of corporal punishment in child development, as a parent, you must face this problem someday. Many parents taught this method as children, but I do not know any other way. In many cases, it is derived from religion, physical or corporal punishment is regarded as an important element of child rearing.

The use of corporal punishment can explain the more general problem: the same parent variable may not have the same meaning in different culture or subculture. For example, Baumrind (1973) reported that authoritarian child rearing was associated with the positive results of a few black women in his study, but white girls are the opposite. Although corporal punishment is often related to some of the harmful consequences of mainstream children, several studies have shown that these may not be relevant to black children (Peters, 1976; Young, 1970). Physical punishment is part of how different groups of black families nurture families. Is it more frequent, making it a part of cultural norms, so that the punishment of children involved is less? I do not know. This example was used only to warn mainstreaming of results of mainstream nursery samples as a danger to minority culture.

Prohibition of Corporal Punishment In 1979, Sweden enacted a law to abolish all child punishment by carers. This prohibition is designed to dispute the general idea that corporal punishment is a normal part of raising children and establishing new social norms. Corporal punishment is not accepted. It is difficult to judge the direct impact of the prohibition, but various evidences suggest that the attitude towards corporal punishment and the degree of physical violence against children changed after the prohibition was forced (70, 71). For example, in a study conducted 30 years after the ban came into force, it was shown that public support for corporal punishment has decreased from 53% in 1965 to 11% in 1994 (70). Almost all children born in the 1950s were hit by mothers by the age of four. However, only 14% of those born in the late 1980s were attacked by their mothers (71).