1. Hitting children teaches them to become hitters themselves. Extensive research data is now available to support a direct correlation between corporal punishment in childhood and aggressive or violent behavior in the teenage and adult years.
www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/tenreasons.html www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/tenreasons.html
We must therefore learn to stop the practice of hitting children in our homes, in our schools, and throughout society in general. To continue using this unnecessary, thoughtless, and unkind practice is inconsistent with our proclaimed concerns about human rights, human respect and human dignity.
www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_valusek.html www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_valusek.html
What's so wrong with hitting children? ... But there are no clear links between such social factors and the frequency or severity of hitting children. The fact is that while there continues to be confusion over what is acceptable, hitting children is likely to itself increase stress and violence within any family.
www.neverhitachild.org/hitting.html www.neverhitachild.org/hitting.html
The following is exerpted from a Rädda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children) pamphlet, Hitting People Is Wrong - And Children Are People Too, published by EPOCH-Worldwide.
www.neverhitachild.org/whyhit.html www.neverhitachild.org/whyhit.html
State governments and all of us have to take a deep breath and stop deceiving ourselves - hitting children is wrong and the law must say so - now.
www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=5636 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=5636
Of course, all parents are not available to pick children up in the middle of the day. If this approach appeals to you, modify it so that it works with your needs. ... In our first article on Aggressive Children, we reviewed the approach outlined by The American Academy of Pediatrics for managing ... stop children hitting...
parentingmethods.suite101.com/article.cfm/handling_aggr... parentingmethods.suite101.com/article.cfm/handling_aggressive_children
A directory of wonderful things. ... A Christian organization in New Zealand devoted to promoting beating children has produced a booklet with instructions on how to hurt your child, and is touring a Swedish lawyer around NZ who argues that Sweden's anti-hitting-your-kid law ruined Sweden.
www.boingboing.net/2006/07/19/kiwi_organization_pr.html
A Christian organization in New Zealand devoted to promoting beating children has produced a booklet with instructions on how to hurt your child, and is touring a Swedish lawyer around NZ who argues that Sweden's anti-hitting-your-kid law ruined Sweden.
www.boingboing.net/2006/07/19/kiwi-organization-pr.html
What is the law with regards to hitting children? Surely the child is entitled to press charges of assault against the parent? If I was to go up to a random person in the street and smack them, I would more than likely be charged by the police.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Parenting/Question69792.html
Driven by the obesity epidemic, type 2 diabetes -- once called ''adult-onset" -- is becoming increasingly common among children and teenagers, to the point where it now accounts for almost half of new diabetes cases in US teens, according to federal figures.
www.boston.com/yourlife/health/children/articles/2005/0... www.boston.com/yourlife/health/children/articles/2005/06/12/adult_diabetes_hitting_children/