Spanking Children Right or Wrong

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Spanking Children: Right or Wrong Corporal Punishment is defined as the intentional infliction of pain but not injury on the body for correctional purpose. In history corporal punishment dates back to the earliest known laws of existence for instance Corporal punishment was infamous in the 1700’s B.C. when Babylon’s Code of Hammurabi was found in 1754 B.C. written on clay tablets it stated over 272 different crimes and there punishments that were of equal value,( I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth”. ) This was one of the first known declarations of punishment for teaching good behaviors it was quite extreme in its own right. But when it comes to America believe it or not corporal punishment has been a part of our nation since its very beginning. The settlers that came from England in 1492 had strict methods of parenting and used corporal punishment along with shame to discipline their children, and criminals its believed there religion was mainly what drove parenting principals in the New World as many settlers were Puritans who believed that children were born bad or even evil and as they grew both parents had the duty of instructing them by good example and corrected with spanking when necessary to turn them into good people worthy of their gods blessing. By the 1900’s most states enacted laws against corporal punishment hoping to improve the lives of children but of course to no avail most American children still experience being spanked which is the most common form of corporal punishment and one of the most heated controversial topics of today’s society. I’ll be researching this controversial topic by supplying evidence founded by the many studies that have been conducted and long hours of reading an research plus on the side I myself will be conducting my own experiment to find out whether or not spanking is an acceptable
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