Saturday, February 22, 2014

It is acceptable for parents to use physical force to discipline their children.

These days we can see many pieces of news report on the newspapers concerning the child abuse by their own parents. Sometimes the contents of the news seems to be too much for almost all of us to see them directly. A child was beaten so hard he had a bone fracture on the skull which caused a very severe aftereffect. Another child was thrown into very hot water only because she took a defiant and a bit disobedient to the parents. As a result the child got burned so severely and even though was brought to the hospital soon she lost her life.

Reading those verious articles on the papers we usually feels it should be prohibited even for the paretens to use physical force under any circumstances towards their child(ren). There is every reason to think it to be banned by the law.Yes, the attitude is very correct and proper.

But is that to be a panacia to ban physical force from the side of parents?  Looking around the society, is it also the reality that there are so many examples of juvenile delinquency here and now? Some of them is more wily and dirty than we can expect of the minors. Some years ago some high schoo-driven-away students were reported to rape and killed a high school girl after more than one month's incarceration in one of the boys' house.

The key term here we have to bear in mind comes up: "Education" should be remembered at any moment of teaching discipline to the children or students at home as well as at schools.

Children are like "angles" when they were so young and parents sometimes forget their role as a socialization-teachers. When the children were infants, it OK to give them complete freedom and later on, as there are supposed to be "socialized", their freedom and liberty naturally would be limited. It is the parents and teachers who are responsible for their proper socialization.

So this speech would be concluded by pointing out the clear cut range for the allowance of physical force towards the children. It should be acceptable for the parents to use physical forct to the children as long as it is strictly limited within the range of "education" for the proper socialization of the children.

 


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