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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Physical Punishment Makes Kids more Aggressive!

A research conducted by Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) concluded
that children who go through physical punishment become aggressive in their lives, showing signs after 20 years of age. They show aggressive intent towards friends and family, and become anti-social. Dr. Joan Durrant of Department of Family Social Sciences (University of Manitoba) agrees to the fact that physical punishment is the root cause of aggression in children towards society.

In another corporal punishment intervention program where 500 families reduced physical punishment on their children found out that there was a decline in such anti-social behaviour of children. Result of the outcome is directly linked to the response of children to the improved behaviour of their parents.  

Several mental health problems like anxiety, depression, use of drugs and alcohol also associate themselves with corporal punishment. Recent neuroimaging studies suggest that corporal punishment cause nervous changes, making alterations in performance on IQ tests and increasing vulnerability to drug or alcohol dependence. 

4 comments:

  1. Unfortunately, physical punishment is still adopted by a wide range of parents nowadays, although huge efforts have been implemented by socialists and academic researchers on limiting and preventing it. I believe such parents do not realise nor recognise the significant role of "EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE" as a guiding behavior by which people are aware of their reactions to certain actions and dealing with difficulties seeking pemanent peace but not momentary self-satisfaction.

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    1. There is a better way of punishing children, than physical punishment. I think depriving a child from something they like for a week is enough torture hehe, a game they like, facebook, internet, or tv... It won't hurt them physically, or in any other way...

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  2. noor i really was planning to read this post because physical punishments is very bad and lead to emotional disturbance. but unfortunately i felt that i need microscope to be able to read this font. :(

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    1. I fixed the colour... Now you can read it :)

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