The Negative Effects of Corporal Punishment

In 2011 a study was done to see how corporal punishment on children effects the performance of the child and it was proven that children that went to schools that used corporal punishment performed worse in tasks that involved decision-making than children that did not go to schools that involved corporal punishment. As people may believe that the use of corporal punishment disciplines their children and teaches them to act in a certain way, it does not help in the future for them to become self- disciplined. Corporal punishment causes some severe side affects and some of them are long-term side effects that stay with the child.

When using corporal punishment on a child it can lead to brain damage, bodily damages, and anti-social behaviour and in some rare cases death. These are many of the reasons why corporal punishment should not be used on children for the correction of their behaviour. Corporal punishment teaches children not to act in a particular behaviour because it may risk them to be beaten, but something that it does not teach them is the reason why they should not act in such a way. It also adds a thought of violence in the child’s mind because it teaches them to act in a violent way towards someone that is weaker than them but be vulnerable to someone that is more powerful. This is where bullying comes from because it is said that bullies have a background of being bullied in the past and it encourages them to become a bully towards other people that are weaker than them.