Corporal punishment and physical abuse: population‐based trends for three‐to‐11‐year‐old children in the United States

Zolotor, Adam J.; Theodore, Adrea D.; Runyan, Desmond K.; Chang, Jen Jen; Laskey, Antoinette L.

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“…Over the past 30 years, public support for corporal punishment has declined sharply, both in terms of attitudes toward 13,14 and parents' actual use of physical discipline. 15 This cultural shift may have affected lower SES parents more than higher SES parents because their initial rates of corporal punishment were higher. If so, the SES gap in the use of corporal punishment would have declined over time.…”

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“…We examine these trends in parents of kindergarten-age children because age 5, the typical age of kindergarten entry, is among the most common ages for parents to use spanking. 13,15 Beginning in 1986, the NLSY began collecting information biennially on the biological children of the female NLSY respondents. We use data from the 1988 or 1990 waves of data collection, which provides our earliest data point (data from 1988 were used if data were missing in 1990).…”

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Socioeconomic Gaps in Parents’ Discipline Strategies From 1988 to 2011

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The prevalence of corporal punishment is high in the United States despite a 1998 American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement urging against its use. The current study tests whether the socioeconomic difference in its use by parents has changed over the past quarter century. It goes on to test whether socioeconomic differences in the use of nonphysical discipline have also changed over time.

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“…Aunque las cifras de prevalencia parecen haber descendido en muchos países en la última década (Zolotor et al, 2011), una mirada a las reacciones que provocó el cambio legislativo de 2007 en nuestro país, dirigido a prohibir el uso del castigo físico como medida de disciplina parental, así como los últimos estudios realizados al efecto (Calvete, Gámez-Guadix y Orue, 2010;Gámez-Guadix et al, 2010b) indican hasta qué punto existe una tolerancia social hacia este como forma de corrección a los hijos dentro de la familia y una discrepancia entre las creencias y las conductas parentales. Aunque también muestra como el cambio de tendencia no se dirige al desarrollo de estrategias de disciplina positiva sino a la sustitución del castigo físico por otras estrategias punitivas más vinculadas al maltrato emocional como insultar, amenazar, humillar, etc.…”

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“…En general, se ha señalado que las estrategias de carácter más aversivo (por ejemplo, castigo físico, amenazas) están ampliamente relacionadas con numerosas consecuencias negativas y, entre ellas, con un mayor riesgo de presencia de maltrato y abuso físico sobre el niño (Gershoff, 2002) o de que el menor, a su vez, azote o golpee a otros niños (Simons y Wurtele, 2010). Algunos autores lo relacionan también con una disminución en la calidad de las relaciones padre-hijo (Zolotor et al, 2011) y con el desarrollo de problemas de ajuste psicológico (Landsford et al, 2014;Scott, Lewsey, Thompson y Wilson, 2013: Smith, Springer y Barret, 2011.…”

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Análisis de las campañas contra el castigo físico a menores en España. Contenido y propuesta de estrategias para el cambio de actitudes

Limiñana

2018

Doxa Comunicación. Revista Interdisciplinar De Estudios De Comunicación Y Ciencias Sociales

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El castigo físico a los menores ha sido una práctica habitual de disciplina parental durante siglos. En los últimos tiempos se han desarrollado diferentes estrategias para su erradicación. Entre ellas, la de sensibilizar a la población sobre sus riesgos, proponiendo formas alternativas de disciplina. En este trabajo se analizan el contexto y los elementos persuasivos utilizados en las campañas publicitarias emitidas a nivel institucional en España para este fin y su efectividad. Se concluye sobre la necesidad de potenciar el desarrollo de campañas de este tipo a través de los medios de comunicación, dándoles una mayor difusión que permita mejorar su efectividad, y ofreciendo estrategias educativas alternativas al castigo físico para que se conviertan en un verdadero instrumento de cambio de actitudes.

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“…28 Such a change is also observed on a national level in both Canada and the US. 29,30 A number of hypotheses might explain the results. First, the findings might reveal a change in parental norms regarding the use of these still socially acceptable discipline strategies, since we also noticed a significant and constant decline in maternal and paternal attitudes in favour of these practices in Quebec.…”

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Prevalence, co-occurrence and decennial trends of family violence toward children in the general population

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Chamberland

Bouchard

2015

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: In Quebec, three population-based surveys have documented the prevalence of psychological aggression, and minor and severe physical violence toward children. This paper aims to present 1) the results of the 2012 survey with regard to the frequency and annual prevalence of violence, and 2) the trends in all three forms of violence between 1999 and 2012 according to children's age. METHODS:The three independent surveys were all conducted through telephone interviews in 1999, 2004 and 2012 by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec and reached a total sample of 9,646 children living with a mother figure. Psychological aggression, and minor and severe physical violence were measured using the Parent Child Conflict Tactics Scales. RESULTS:The results show that repeated psychological aggression, after having increased between 1999 (48%) and 2004 (53%), slightly decreased in 2012 (49%). Minor physical violence decreased steadily between 1999 and 2012, from 48% to 35%, and severe physical violence remained stable (6%). These three forms of violence varied by the age category of the children. Finally, the results show that the co-occurrence of the use of physical and psychological violence remained high in all three surveys. CONCLUSION:The results are consistent with trends in North America and are discussed in terms of services to support families.KEY WORDS: Prevalence; physical violence; psychological aggression; children; trends La traduction du résumé se trouve à la fin de l'article.

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Corporal punishment and physical abuse: population‐based trends for three‐to‐11‐year‐old children in the United States

Cited by 87 publications

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Socioeconomic Gaps in Parents’ Discipline Strategies From 1988 to 2011

Socioeconomic Gaps in Parents’ Discipline Strategies From 1988 to 2011

Análisis de las campañas contra el castigo físico a menores en España. Contenido y propuesta de estrategias para el cambio de actitudes

Prevalence, co-occurrence and decennial trends of family violence toward children in the general population

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