What Science Says About Using Physical Force
Read What Science Says About Using Physical Force to Punish a Child (attached to this assignment in Content). This is a news article that does a great job of providing an overview of the good literature on this topic.
Read this article and briefly summarize the FIVE key findings as to why physical aggression should never be used to punish a child. Be specific and detailed.
Sample Solution
The goal of discipline, which actually comes from the Latin root meaning ‘to teach,’ is to change behavior. And physical discipline across many, many, many studies is ineffective at changing behavior and it’s ineffective for many reasons. There is overwhelming evidence that physical punishment is both ineffective and harmful to child development. Former HuffPost Senior Columnist Lisa Belkin has argued that the word “debate” should be left out of the spanking conversation, because the science against it is so clearly one-sided. Physical punishment makes kids more aggressive – Researchers from Tulane University found that children who are spanked frequently at age 3 are more likely to show aggressive behavior by the time they’re 5 than kids who are not.
