Keith William A.
Caacbay 12 STEM 02P
Physical Punishment for Children Should Be Considered a Crime
Nowadays children’s are doing many things, things that parents may find it a
bad behavior or a thing that may break the rule. And parents may act to
discipline their child by doing some punishment so that they may not do it again.
Sometimes parents resort to physical punishment by hurting their child, they
use force in disciplining their children’s through punching, hitting their back
with a belt and many other ways that may inflict physical pain to the child. By
doing these things, children’s suffer from these and may have bruises, bone
fractures, cuts and any injury caught from the damage inflicted by their parents
or any adult person. It may be fatal or not fatal depends on how the physical
punishment is done, but when they doing it over and over again it may be
dangerous to the child. And physical punishment should be considered a crime
so that adult persons may be charged and also be punished by their act.
Physical Punishment should be a crime because of it may be dangerous to the
children’s. Parents or any adults that continuously doing this behavior are just
free and not being punished by the law while children’s are suffering from the
physical punishment they have received from their parents or any adult. As a
child their bones or bodies are not yet strong to endure any physical punishment
even if their bones or their bodies are strong they are still a child and it may
leave the child traumatized. Child should not be handling these kind of
punishment given by their parents or adults, these child’s should be enjoying
their life playing with toys, outside or with their friends, instead of these things
the children’s are having personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder,
dissociative disorders, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, eating disorders,
substance abuse and aggression. Physical punishment done by parents or adults
to children’s may affect their life as they grow, it may destroy their life because
of physical punishment that is why it should be considered as a crime.
There are other types of child discipline that parents or adults may use to
discipline their child aside from physical punishment. Positive discipline is based
on praise and encouragement, children’s are more to learn from their mistakes
and may not do it again. Gentle discipline focuses on preventing problems,
parents managing their own emotions while addressing a child’s misbehavior.
Boundary-based discipline focuses on setting limits and making the rules clear
up front. Behavior modification focuses on positive and negative consequences.
Good behavior is reinforced with praise or rewards while misbehavior is
discouraged through the use of ignoring and negative consequences, like the loss
of privileges. Emotion coaching is a five step discipline process that focuses on
teaching kids about feelings. When kids understand their feelings, they can
verbalize them rather than act on them. Kids are taught that their feelings are
okay and parents help teach them appropriate ways to deal with their emotions.
When physical punishment is considered as a crime, parents will now use this
type of child discipline. They may resort to this kind of disciplines than physical
punishment and may leave smiles to the face of children’s than making the child
cry and be emotionally scarred for life, so it is for the best that physical
punishment should be considered as a crime.
There is a senate bill in the Philippines which is an act to promote positive, non-
violent discipline of children, prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment,
humiliating and degrading treatment. It says that the State shall defend the right
of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special
protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation, and other
conditions prejudicial to their development. Now physical punishment is illegal
and can be considered as a crime and offenders may have a penalty and their
parental authority may be gone to the children.
Now physical punishment for children should be considered as a crime because
it only brings suffering to the children that may destroy their lives. By destroying
their lives the future of this children’s are gone. And if this children’s should be
a parent one day, they will do the same to their child’s because they will follow
the same to their parents or they will not. Everyone should consider that physical
punishment for children is a crime so that no children will experience physical
punishment again but will experience love and happiness in their lives and
everyone will live happily ever after.
