Effect of Spanking

Effects of Spanking on Children

Assignment #1 The Effects of Spanking and Corporal Punishment on Children Thomas Grant SOWK 300 Tuskegee University February 10, 2012

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Article 1
Ulman, A., & Straus, M. (2003). Violence by children against mothers in relation to violence between parents and corporal punishment by parent. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 34, 41-60. Summary: This article talks about how corporal punishment on children can actually lead to the parent being abused by the child. Then this article goes on to state that one reason that this may be happening is because if the child is already predisposed to violence and has been a victim of it then they are more likely to hit their parents. The article also talks about how it is more likely for a younger child to hit their parent. Also more delquent children have a higher rate of hitting their parents also.

Article 2
Straus, M., Sugarman, D., PhD, & Sims, J., PhD. (1997). Spanking by parents and subsequent antisocial behavior of children. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 151, 761-767. Summary: This article is about how spanking a child can lead to antisocial behavior later in life. In the article they there was a study that was done on children to see if spanking could lead to the prevention of antisocial behavior. At the end of the study they concluded that spanking actually had reverse effects on the children causing them to be more antisocial. Another study that was done stated that corporal punishment is known to have worse effects on older children compared to younger children.

Article 3
Straus, M., & Yodanis, C. (1996). Corporal punishment in adolescence and physical assaults on spouses in later life: What accounts for the link. Journal of Marriage and Family, 58, 825-841. Summary: This article was stated how there was a link between Corporal punishment as a child could lead to spousal abuse later in life. It tried to prove this to be true by taking many different surveys. One of the surveys taken stated that teenagers that received corporal punishment were a lot more likely to abuse their spouse. I support this article because I think that if you have signs of abuse when you are longer than you are more likely to abuse your children when you get older.

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Article 4
Durrant, J. (2000). Trends in youth crime and well-being since the abolition of corporal punishment in Sweden. Youth & Society, 31(4), 437-455 Summary: This article is about how the banning of corporal punishment against children in Sweden has affected the children. The study conducted focuses on such things as depression, aggression and alcohol abuse and seeing if they would all drop after corporal punishment was outlawed. The results were that drug use, youth crime and suicide all declined after the banning of corporal punishment against children. The only area that did not decline was violence which stayed about level.

Article 5
Straus, M., & Mouradian, V. (1998). Impulsive corporal punishment by mothers and antisocial behavior and impulsiveness of children. Behavioral Sciences and Law, 16, 353-374 Summary: This article is about how impulsive corporal punishment can lead to children becoming more impulsive and demonstrate antisocial behavior. The study considers impulsive corporal punishment has hot tempered and uncontrolled beating of children. The study showed that when the parent would be there children impulsively the child would later demonstrate more impulsive behaviors. The child would also show more antisocial behaviors as well.