http://www.nj.com/parenting/guest_bloggers/index.ssf/2011/11/post_26.html
A judge's daughter posted a video online of her father beating her when she was sixteen. The judge said that he was only disciplining her for downloading illegal music. Actually, his actions were completely legal, but he did use a belt to hit her daughter. He claims that his daughter, now an adult, only posted this video because he cut her off financially. The controversy arises now about discipline and abuse and what builds character and causes damage.
Honestly, I am not against corporal punishment. If it is not used too often, then its effects could put emphasis on the message the parents want to get across. However, if it is used as an outlet and stress and it is used to punish everything a child does wrong, then its effect of emphasis wears off and it becomes an obsolete corrective measure and a damaging emotional and physical scar. Especially in today's watered-down community, negative reinforcement has become almost taboo. Perhaps the reason many adults now complain about the lack of respect children have nowadays is that they no longer properly discipline them.
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