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Debate Score:50
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Total Votes:61
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Corporal Punishment

Is physical force a justifiable means for punishing children?

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Side Score: 40
1 point

Spankings for younger children....... Yes.

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Side: For
Dremorius(861) Disputed
1 point

Child Abuse...... Yes. (/sarcasm)

Side: Against
1 point

spanking???? is it good?

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Side: For
Catmarcus(23) Disputed
1 point

Why?

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Side: Against
0 points

Yes, I think it needs to be revived. There are just too many kids out there who don't know basic respect. They run riot everywhere they go, and don't have anything going for them in their lives. Heaps of people were subject to corporal punishment as children, but now they are the smartest, best, and nicest people around.

Side: For
KatieMarie(288) Disputed
1 point

I got spankings daily from ages 1-13. I still don't care what no one has to say about my behavior. You have to give respect to earn it. I will respect an adult to a limit. But teachers loose that respect when they try to yell at me like they're my guardian. That's when you gotsta 'jump judy' on them.

Side: Against
laurjohn(97) Disputed
1 point

When teachers yell at you, it's because they're trying desperately to get you to behave in the only way they're allowed to. Also, keep in mind that when teachers yell, they're generally yelling at the class in general, not you personally. Most likely there's someone else in the class who's driving everyone nuts. A reason for banning corporal punishment in the first place would have been so teachers came across as being more respectful. This obviously doesn't work. If corporal punishment was to be brought back into action, teachers wouldn't exploit it and would use it only on disrespectful, out-of-control children who need it bad, not on everyone, like they have to at the moment. Therefore, I maintain that corporal punishment should be used.

Side: For
1 point

sure... but that is only a few... what about the majority of students who are good??

Side: Against
0 points

Sure. but it is only a SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not all students are bad mannered and most who do not need punishements,,,,

Side: For
cjmSNSD(39) Clarified
0 points

sorry this is not supporting... it is actually rebutting... I mistake

Side: For
-1 points

I was spanked and I turned out alright. So were many of the people of the preceding generations - most of them turned out alright, too.

It might be too soon to judge, but this 'no-spank' generation seems to be off to a pretty bad start.

Side: For
5 points

Corporal Punishment is an act of violence.

It may be a form of punishment but punishing by hitting anothers beloving children should not be permitted.

Side: Against
Coldfire(1014) Disputed
3 points

Something tells me that that 'beloved' child did something to warrant punishment.

yelling is an act of violence, 'time out' is a form of neglect, restricting access to things is a form of deprivation. Saying that spanking is an act of violence is obvious but can be misconstrued as excessive or abusive, but so can just about any form of punishment.

And whats the difference between one adult implementing punishment over another? wouldn't the adult with first hand knowledge of the incident be the best judge of what type or how the punishment be enacted?

Side: For
2 points

of course it is a act of violence,,, than what is it/??

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Side: Against
4 points

Hmm... there is a cruel psychologically damaging aspect of receiving pain in silence and discipline, one that loosens relations between child and parent. Pain and violence is not the way to go, especially against young children- there is other ways to deal out punishments than provoking harm on a child, this just shouldn't be one. Clearly, it all goes down to bad parenting and anger problems, but we should know better.

Side: Against
4 points

It affects students in a long run and teaches them violence

Side: Against
3 points

Spanking a child in the butt is not good for their anal health. (lol)

Side: Against
3 points

yes, also it could become a sexual abuse

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Side: Against
3 points

It depends on what type of corporal punishment; where used domestically by parents/family, or with in school by teacher, or and by court of law.

I would for court of law but against by parents and teachers. I believe physical punishment of children is an unacceptable which is not in the best interests of the child or the parent/guardian/teacher. There is nothing that you can teach your child via physical abuse that you could not do with words alone.

Side: Against
3 points

Corporal punishment affects children in their long-run

Corporal punishment is used to fix a child’s behavior with physical punishment. It might change the student’s behavior for just a moment, but it couldn’t last long. Not only that it is temporary, it also brings a child affective in their long-run because of the corporal punishments they have received when they were young. According to a research in the United States, children who have suffered from corporal punishment, as adults they present with disorders such as Stress, Depression, and Anxiety to name just a few. Corporal punishment gives the thought to the child that violence is the most acceptable way in any kinds of issue, lowers self esteem and increases rebellious manners, too. Studies have even shown an elevated risk of heart disease related to childhood punishment. Also, amazingly, corporal punishment lowers a child's IQ: A study at the University of New Hampshire, released in 1998-JUL, found that spanking children apparently slows down their intellectual development. A study of 960 children found an average 4 point reduction in IQ who were corporal punished, from average IQ of 102 (above average) for children who are not corporal punished, to an average IQ 98 (below average) for who are. A reduction of 4 points is enough to have a significant negative functional effect on the students. Many struggle their entire lives to engage in healthy satisfying relationships and sadly, when they become parents themselves, they often use the same way to discipline their children as the ones that have received when they were young. Adolescents who receive physical punishment are three times more likely to grow up to abuse their own children, according to Straus. The study by Straus, an American reporter, found that 7 percent of never-spanked adolescents grow up to abuse their children, compared to 24 percent of those who were spanked. It should be noted, however, that the vast majority of people, whether or not they received physical punishment, are unlikely to abuse their children. Also, it could have the child learn ‘violence’. To support my comment, Comments by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE) from their website at www.NoSpank.net: "Spanking does for a child's development what wife-beating does for a marriage."In a research, a child who has seen their father hit their mother for many times, have grown up and have put violence upon their wife, too. Also, violence is easily learned through what you see, such as computer games, or by TV programs. Then why not from teachers or from other students who get punished from teachers? In a short run, it could be in a form of bullying, and in a long-run, violence. Even though there is a low percentage of a child becoming violent from corporal punishment, it is wrong to even have the smallest percentage of being able to. Because it gives serious effects to a child in the long-run I believe that corporal punishment should be banned.

Side: Against

Uhg, are people still spanked? Spanking is one of the most humiliating, insulting, and horrific things in western society.

Exposing your child's bare ass can only be construed as something sexual; I mean, come on. You have all of the ways in the world to punish your child, especially verbally, and you choose to pull his/her pants down, pull his/her underwear down, and smack their ass?

I mean, come on.. It's blatantly sexual. It needs to be banned immediately.

Side: Against
2 points

Of course you should be against it. It might make adult life better but it would make childhood a hell of a lot scarrier and horrible.

Side: Against

Corporal punishment is wrong and it is child abuse. Children are afraid to attend school where corporal punishment is allowed.

Side: Against
1 point

Corporal punishment is illegal in most countries.

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Supporting Evidence: Corporal Punishment Map (d2drhpw56bvoc4.cloudfront.net)
Side: Against