Factors to Consider

There are many different factors that play a part into the physical punishment of a child, how often it happens and to what degree it is practiced. The statics from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (NLYS-CS) conducted at the Ohio State University Center for Human Resource Research, Columbus, shows that some of the main factors that authors and doctors specializing in the subject have noted that socioeconomic levels, single parent families, and the age of the parents play a major role in the disciplining of children. As far as the argument of socio-economic status is concerned, it is proven that just as poverty and minority races are concurrent, so are minority parents and the use of corporal punishment are related. (Garbarino, 1980). Though studies have concluded that all minorities are destined to poverty; however there is evidence that there are more impoverished minorities that use corporal punishment as a way of discipline in comparison to other races and their forms of family order. Nevertheless, children that grow in low social status homes tend to also have higher rates of antisocial behavior and delinquency, which is also a possible result of corporal punishment. (Feshback, 1970) “Regardless of whether parents

a satisfactory socialization environment in other respects, capital punishment tends to increase the risk of antisocial behavior”, (Alvy 1987)