After yesterday's news, in which we saw how a flight attendant decided to tear a baby she was whipping from her mother's arms, I find it interesting to comment on two recent studies in which it is shown that both the whipping and other forms of corporal punishment remains a common educational resource (to call it somehow).
Since 1979 there are 24 countries that have banned physical punishment, however it is observed that, in the US, for example, About 80 percent of preschoolers continue to receive corporal punishment.
Dr. Desmond Runyan, director of one of the studies in which surveys were conducted in Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, the Philippines and the US, commented that corporal punishment rates were "dramatically superior" in all communities "that the official published rates of physical abuse in any country".
This study, which will be published in the next edition of the magazine Pediatrics It also says that corporal punishment was more used by mothers who had fewer years of education, that rates of corporal punishment vary widely among communities in the same country and that violent punishment is the same or more common in countries other than the United States. , especially in those whose populations have medium or low income.
The other study I wanted to comment on and that will be published in the magazine Child Abuse Review found that in 2002 the children were slapped or whipped 18% less than in 1975. This is good news, no doubt, however it is not so much if we observe that despite this decrease 79 percent of preschoolers continued to be flogged in 2002 and if we add that about half of the children of 8 and 9 years had been hit on occasion with an object (be it a wooden stick, a belt, ...).
"The study notes that the US, unlike most other high-income countries, has had few changes in the use of corporal punishment as common.", says Dr. Adam J. Zolotor.
These days we are dealing with these issues a lot in both the entries made in this regard by Mireia and yesterday's news, which opened an interesting debate. The truth is that personally I am glad that these issues appear and are debated. 25 years ago, surely nobody would talk about these issues since it would all seem normal and useful to hit our children "on time" or as a last resort (or penultimate, go to know).
This means that many of those who receive cheeks and scourges in our childhood have decided not to transfer this inheritance to our children and this opens a path to nonviolence that is very necessary for children. From here a few years, more than likely, people will laugh to see that in 2010 the parents debated on the adequacy or not of giving a cheek to their children, as we now laugh at those who, decades ago, valued the right thing or not to hit their women.
