Spanking isn't parenting; it's child abuse,
this was the article published on CNN.com by Mel Robbins on September 16,
2014. This Publication was about one of the NFL's (National Football League) and
United States most prolific athletes, Adrian Peterson. The athlete was indicted
in a child abuse case in which he allegedly spanked his 4-year old son with a
switch . This process of discipline can be called Corporal Punishment or in other words
child abuse.
Corporal punishment has been a form of
discipline for years especially in the African American, or Caribbean Black
community for generations. The ability to inflict pain to correct an offense is
one of the few ways these cultures satisfy their dominance as parents or a parental
figure. It is also labeled as child abuse mainly because of the wounds and scars
that it leaves on the body of its victims. Many people, mainly in the African
American culture say that it is necessary and that it was imposed on them by
their parents and they became outstanding citizens of society because of it, while
others think it is an out of date practice that needs to be extinct because of
the implications that it leaves on its targets.
The question still lingers, is
this type of punishment a justified pain or just plain child abuse?
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