Is Spanking A Safe And Effective Way To Get Children To Behave?

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negative effects of spanking include disturbance of learning ability, dissruption of a close parent child relationship, parents anger and emotion, negative self-image and possible adverse affects.
Ritchie& Ritchie(1981), Straus and Mather(1994) report that corporal punishment creates undesirable effects on education. To understand the effects of corporal punishment on education we need to look further into reasearch. Experts in this field of study have stated that fear, anxiety, and pain interferes with the learning process. This reasearch staes that spanking can impede learning, reduce a child's memory, and reduce changes in their behavioral patterns(Ritchie&Richie, 1981). Straus & Mather(1994) state that corporal punishment is linked to a decrease in college graduation.
Several sources state that the parent child relationship can be disrupted through deceit, escape responses, and may cause anti-social behavior. Research has shown that children who have been spanked will attempt ...

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a way to release emotions. Straus(1994) staes that this release could be mistaken for effectiveness when the child reacts with an immediate behavior change. The problem behavior will likely reappear at a later time when the pressure of punishment has passed(Williamson, 1990). The most recent research by Straus et al.(1997) found that children who were spanked regularly show worse behavior when observed two years later.
Another important finding on spanking is that it always affects the self-concept negatively(Williamson, 1990). This becomesespecially true when a child has taken on the role of the "bad kid". This child is then likely to be spanked more frequently which continues the ...

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