I finally told her that it was quite alright when the hem of her school skirt was midway up her tighs. I could even understand how he felt that his uniform, shorts, kneesocks and all, didn’t fit with his self-image. Mom was a homemaker and supplemented my dad’s income by babysitting, freelance writing, even sewing for others. Consistent with previous findings, [ 43] these parents appear to compartmentalize “spanking” into what they consider to be a less harmful, more acceptable, and perhaps even useful form of violence.

Third, Spearman’s correlation was computed on parents’ responses to the items asking parents about the necessity of “spanking” and “hitting”.At the Chateau d'If prison, Edmond Dantes receives yearly brutal floggings at the hands of the sadistic warden, Armand Dorleac.

More than five times as many parents agreed that some children need to be spanked than agreed that some children need to be hit. I laid them on good, beginning on the upper part of his posterior and finishing right on his upper thighs. A note on my father … I love him dearly despite his temper and his heavy hand I experienced all those years ago. This becomes even more challenging in the summer prior to college when the teen invokes the “I’ll be on my own soon” mantra that supposedly negates your authority. To assess adolescents’ and their parents’ beliefs that spanking is a normal part of parenting, they were asked to indicate their level of agreement on a five-point scale (strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree) with the statement, “Spanking is a normal part of parenting.

Adolescence might be a critical developmental period preceding parenthood to intervene in an effort to reduce support for physical punishment, thus interrupting the intergenerational cycles of punitive violence against children. I could see it was not only her first time here, in her four years at the institute, she had never been punished.

Now that my kids are older, I am so thankful that I righted things for the better at that critical moment, that the cycle ceased, and I moved forward to deal with my own scars and anger in a purposeful and professional manner. My heavy, rubber-soled plimsoll resided in its desk drawer, from where I took it and placed it on my desk. The video has been viewed millions of times after being shared on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, and sparked much debate from commenters about the correct way to discipline children. In recognition of children’s rights to be protected from violence including corporal punishment, and in support of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, there has been an increased need for prevalence data and evidence that can inform effective prevention strategies [ 20]. Each stroke was followed by a very girlish sigh, almost silent after the first, well audible after the last stroke.How should I punish a girl, whoose recent encounter with a certain cane has seemingly had no effect on her behaviour? However, evidence from cross-sectional surveys from Canada and the United States suggests that physical punishment is decreasing over time [ 2, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26].