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Spanking/Corporal Punishment 1

Spanking/Corporal Punishment

Exercise #1

Spanking/Corporal Punishment of Children

Kevan Dunlop

SOWK 300

Tuskegee University

January 27, 2010


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Article 1

Hankerson, H. E. (1979). Children in Crisis in the United States: Child Abuse and

Neglect--A Continuing Problem. The Journal of Negro Education, 48 (3), 396-407.

Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2295056

Summary: The article points to child abuse in the early nineteenth century with the way

punishments were handled by school masters being cruel and brutal. The misuse of children in the work force was widespread during that time also. The negative effects that

slavery had on the Black community are a serious one because the growth of a black

child is more uncertain than that of another race because of the injustice and cruelty that

this race dealt with in many levels due to the slave era. Research shows that cases of

neglect and abuse generally show signs of psychopathology and stressful social

conditions of the family. Abusive parents are in all socioeconomics levels. The low

economic group is less likely to have private medical care so they have a better chance of

being under investigation for abuse. There cases are viewed at a much higher rate than

the higher economic group. The higher economic families may have private treatment

and may also abuse different with verbal attacks or withdrawal of care and affection.

Article 2

Langdon, G., & Stout, I. (1951). A Study of the Home Life of Well-Adjusted Children in

Three Areas of the U.S. Journal of Educational Sociology, 25 (2), 67-85. Retrieved from

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2263650


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to care giving actions. These differences can be traced by the asymmetric socialization of males and females. Females socialization stresses intimacy, teamwork, and sharing

feelings aloud which is different than young boys emphasis on aggression and toughness,

playing combative central themed games. The female socialization helps develop child

care skills and nonviolent methods of solving conflicts while with males there

socialization hinders that skill set.

Article 4

McLoyd, V., & Smith, J. (2002). Physical Discipline and Behavior Problems in African

American, European American, and Hispanic Children: Emotional Support as a

Moderator. Journal of Marriage and Family, 64 (1), 40-53. Retrieved from

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3599775

Summary: In this article it says that parental use of physical discipline is certainly

connected to behavioral and psychological problems in children and young people

.Corporal punishment varies in intensity from spanking with the end result not causing

physical injury to physical abuse which is extreme physical force that imposes bodily

injury. Corporal punishment by fathers increased the probability of criminal behavior by

their sons. Corporal punishment by mothers increased rates of violence in sons.According to a study in 1988 African Americans had a lower family income needs ratio

and lower levels of emotional support than Hispanics and European Americans.

Hispanics also had a lower family income needs than European Americans, but there are

similar to European Americans with their levels of emotional support. When spanking


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transpire in a circumstance of strong overall emotional support for the child it does notappear to supply a major increase in behavior problems. But without such support in

place negative behavior problems tend to occur in response to increased spanking.

Article 5

Rodriguez, C. (2003). Parental Discipline and Abuse Potential Affects on Child

Depression, Anxiety, and Attributions. Journal of Marriage and Family, 65 (4), 809-817.

Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3599892

Summary: In this article it says that the media typically depicts the most brutal and fatal

acts of child abuse come from everyday physical discipline. The article says that it is

important to make sure the effects of physical abuse and physical discipline dont

overlap. Children in families with severe physical discipline may have higher anxiety

symptoms than children whose parents use less severe physical discipline. Corporal

punishment is linked to children becoming violent adults. A relationship between

childhood histories of insensitive discipline and adult psychopathology exists according

to research. Parents physical punishment relates to some portions of a childs emotional

well being even without identified physical abuse. Some findings show a difference in

results from parental attitudes and parental practices.


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