How do parents label their physical disciplinary practices? A focus on the definition of corporal punishment

Fréchette, Sabrina; Romano, Elisa

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.02.003

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“…Although there is a conceptual distinction between corporal punishment and child abuse, its distinction can be vague or even complex when one considers what forms, extents, and methods of corporal punishment in a culture and across cultures constitute child abuse. Fréchette and Romano () discussed problems in variability of conceptual definition of corporal punishment by researchers, which resulted in equivocal findings of its positive or detrimental effects. They further contended that variability of definition of corporal punishment among parents also makes it hard to tailor parent training programs according to their physical disciplinary strategies.…”

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Predictors of Cambodian parents’ perceptions of corporal punishment

Nho

Seng

2017

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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This cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the predictors of parents' positive perceptions of using corporal punishment on their children. We investigated whether there is a gender difference in the use of corporal punishment according to parents' gender and socioeconomic variables and what factors predict Cambodian parents' positive perceptions of the use of corporal punishment toward sons and daughters. Cambodian parents hold different views on raising boys versus girls. Younger parents with more children, limited education, low socioeconomic status, unemployed, living in rural areas, and parents who hold positive perceptions of spousal abuse of women were more likely to approve of the use of corporal punishment. Our results present implications for social work practice and policy, particularly in child welfare in Cambodia. Most importantly, in order to prevent the use of corporal punishment on children in the home, the government of Cambodia as well as domestic and international organizations need to make more active efforts to promote parenting education.

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Predictors of Cambodian parents’ perceptions of corporal punishment

Nho

Seng

2017

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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“…Parental physical abuse occurs when a child is injured or endangered from an act of physical force motivated by anger intended to inflict bodily pain (American Academy of Pediatrics, ). Distinctions between corporal punishment and parental physical abuse have not always been easy to render for parents, children, and child protection experts (Fréchette & Romano, ). Evidence continues to emerge suggesting that the negative outcomes associated with these two presumably different classes of behavior are quite similar.…”

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Differentiating corporal punishment from physical abuse in the prediction of lifetime aggression

King

Ratzak

Ballantyne

et al. 2018

Aggressive Behavior

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Corporal punishment and parental physical abuse often co-occur during upbringing, making it difficult to differentiate their selective impacts on psychological functioning. Associations between corporal punishment and a number of lifetime aggression indicators were examined in this study after efforts to control the potential influence of various forms of co-occurring maltreatment (parental physical abuse, childhood sexual abuse, sibling abuse, peer bullying, and observed parental violence). College students (N = 1,136) provided retrospective self-reports regarding their history of aggression and levels of exposure to childhood corporal punishment and maltreatment experiences. Analyses focused on three hypotheses: 1) The odds of experiencing childhood physical abuse would be higher among respondents reporting frequent corporal punishment during upbringing; 2) Corporal punishment scores would predict the criterion aggression indices after control of variance associated with childhood maltreatment; 3) Aggression scores would be higher among respondents classified in the moderate and elevated corporal punishment risk groups. Strong support was found for the first hypothesis since the odds of childhood physical abuse recollections were higher (OR = 65.3) among respondents who experienced frequent (>60 total disciplinary acts) corporal punishment during upbringing. Partial support was found for the second and third hypotheses. Dimensional and categorical corporal punishment scores were associated significantly with half of the criterion measures. These findings support efforts to dissuade reliance on corporal punishment to manage child behavior.

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“…The Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007, 3) calls corporal discipline a form of "cruel or degrading" punishment. Others describe physical punishment as "abuse" or "maltreatment," sometimes simply by publishing articles about corporal discipline in journals with the names Child Maltreatment or Child Abuse & Neglect (e.g., Frechette and Romano 2017;Kobulsky, Kepple, and Holmes 2017;Lansford et al 2016). Scholars regularly call the use of force "physical abuse" or "physical violence" (Hahm and Guterman 2001, 171;UNICEF 2014a, 11, 25).…”

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Force Signs: Ideologies of Corporal Discipline in Academia and the Marshall Islands

Berman¹

2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Corporal discipline is often called the most frequent form of violence against children. This conclusion comes from an extensive body of research that supposedly shows that corporal discipline is both harmful and pervasive. But this research is biased by three ideologies of language and signs—or semiotic ideologies—that distort the collection and interpretation of data: assumptions that speech functions mainly to refer; views of signs and the physical world as distinct; and interpretations of force signs as indices of deviant relationships. In contrast, in a village in the Marshall Islands reported force has multiple functions, people combine multiple different types of signs in disciplinary interactions, and force signs often index not deviance but healthy relationships. The harms to children and families created by these misinterpretations of signs go far beyond producing incorrect estimates of the frequency of corporal discipline. On the one hand, these ideologies pathologize people who frequently produce force signs as well as the kinship systems associated with them; on the other hand, misunderstood communicative patterns may lead researchers to miss harms that people do experience. Researching corporal discipline requires an analysis of force signs in context—an ethnography of communication of force.

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How do parents label their physical disciplinary practices? A focus on the definition of corporal punishment

Cited by 30 publications

References 36 publications

Predictors of Cambodian parents’ perceptions of corporal punishment

Predictors of Cambodian parents’ perceptions of corporal punishment

Differentiating corporal punishment from physical abuse in the prediction of lifetime aggression

Force Signs: Ideologies of Corporal Discipline in Academia and the Marshall Islands

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