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Of all the social evils, those including children as victims are the most heinous. There are several ways in which the children are being victimized by non-productive and destructive sections of the society. One such concept and widely addressed issue is that of child abuse. The definition of child abuse is quite broad and can include anything that involves children being victimized. Parents are the closest and most responsible caregivers of children, and when they physically punish and hurt the children, they make their children rebellious.
Physical punishment to children has been legislated as a crime in the modern states of the world, however the more conventional and traditional states and countries of the world include beating children up by their parents as a customary thing, and it is considered something that is at the discretion of the parents since it is a family matter.
The claim of the parents is that they physically hurt and punish their children in order to discipline them. They claim that the children are to be shown the side of parenthood for them to know what would be the treatment towards them if they do not obey their parents or do wrong deeds. But what they fail to understand is that there are several others ways to discipline children, and most of them involve no physical punishment (Fergusson & Lynskey, 1997).
Parents beat children over misdeed mainly because they are not willing to accept their failure in brought up and that they want to take the shortest possible way to make the children fully understand the disappointment of their parents from their attitude. The parents should understand that they actually make their children rebellious when they carry out this sort of treatment towards them.
References:
Fergusson, D. M., & Lynskey, M. T. (1997). Physical punishment/maltreatment during childhood and adjustment in young adulthood. Child abuse & neglect, 21(7), 617-630.
