Spanking adults

Back in the day, spanking might have been something your mom did to you when you were in trouble—aka when you refused to come home after playing outside with the neighbs or started throwing around cuss words because you thought you were cool. Those times were Did we get your attention yet? Morgan recommends using visuals to get your point across.

Spanking looks to be instantly effective. If a child is misbehaving—if he keeps swearing, or playing with matches—and then you spank that child, the behavior stops immediately. The effect is so apparently obvious that it can drive a sort of delusion. Lived experience tends to be more powerful than facts. One of the few memories that many people retain from early childhood is times they were spanked.

We live in a world that often separates physical abuse and spanking. New research explains why. Now we do. A new study, based on 50 years of research, leaves absolutely no doubt that not only is spanking useless for positive behaviour change, it actually does damage. In the face of steely proof, it is hard to give up what we have always done, particularly when there is nothing obvious and failsafe that can take its place.

Spanking is a common form of corporal punishment , involving the act of striking the buttocks of another person to cause physical pain, generally with an open hand. More severe forms of spanking, such as switching, paddling , belting , caning , whipping , and birching , involve the use of an object instead of a hand. Parents may spank children in response to undesired behavior. In North America , the word "spanking" has often been used as a synonym for an official paddling in school, [5] and sometimes even as a euphemism for the formal corporal punishment of adults in an institution.