Throughout the literature, supportive attitudes toward physical punishment are consistently associated with an increased likelihood of its use [ 30, 31, 32]. The punishment was not dealt with malice or cruelty, in fact, I have the utmost respect for all the adults involved.

S. have banned corporal punishment, four years ago The Washington Postreported that 19 states still allow administrators to hit students.He was well-respected as an Officer in the Army and well-liked by fellow truckers where he drove for over 30 years. I believe my mom signed a contract for them to paddle students, but nowhere in the contract where they can show me where it's OK for students to hold my sister when the teacher paddles them," said Smith's older sister, Roddericka Smith. I am headmistress of a school, in which there are 175 girls from 8 to 19 years, and I find it necessary to spank on the bare seat for disobedience. One playground memory that inevitably led to chastisement stuck firmly in the memory of former pupil Roger Jeffries, who recounted it a few years ago. Finally, only a few significant associations were found for sociodemographic variables and parent-reported and adolescent-reported spanking.

Set in 1958 Sweden the protagonist Erik, a 15-year-old boy, take regular severe beatings with a belt or a stick on his bare back by his sadistic stepfather after dinner. In reality, that rarely occurred because by the time he got homIt is likely that adolescents’ beliefs about physical punishment are linked to their parents’ beliefs, but few studies have examined that relationship.

I was never hit on any other parts of my body but my rear end, as some other children have had to endure random slaps and punching, but it still hurt like hell.As the years passed, the spankings decreased; although Daddy did try to reach over and swat a my rear-end when I was 13 about a remark I had made. Public education and law reform are needed to decrease the normalization and perceived necessity of spanking in child-rearing. In countries where population-level data are available, prohibitions against physical punishment have been followed by dramatic declines in approval and use of multiple forms of corporal punishment (including “spanking”) [ 57].