Corporal Punishment

Baffled By Barbaric Discipline Walking past the television, you overhear the news anchor convey an appalling number of reported child abuse cases. Dazed and confused, you take a seat for a brief moment in an attempt to understand how such a horrific number of violent, unethical acts could be committed and how the depraved people who commit them could wake up and look at themselves in the mirror each morning. The anchor reports, that the …

…damages him more than it teaches him discipline. A Simple Scenario Billy, a small ten-year-old boy, is physically reprimanded for misbehaving. Instead of learning to abide by the rules in order to avoid another spanking, Billy mistakenly assumes that he is constantly hit because his parents do not love him. Over time hatred and resentment well up inside the little boy; he begins to deliberately misbehave and rebel merely to antagonize and irritate his parents.