One of the major controversies that we speak about today is, is spanking young children an effective discipline? The debate is whether is illegal to spank your children for something they have done or if there are other ways to punish your child besides giving them a spank. This controversy is significant because research has been found that spanking your child on a regular basis tend to most likely have bad mental health, increase in delinquency and criminal behaviors. It’s important that we are researching about this topic because this something we deal every day and we have also experienced it. The two articles that I would be speaking about today is Hitting children undermines wellbeing in the long term and spanking should not be illegal and how it relates to today’s controversies.…show more content… The purpose of the author is to implore everyone that is a parent, that there are ways around than just spanking our children. The author is against the fact that children get spank for something bad they do, but briefly gives statistics based on research that proof that spanking children is effective on short term and long term behaviors. It proofs in significant ways based on research and other observations they made that children that don’t get spanked are more likely to cooperate and trust their parents. The author concludes, if your apparent, or plan to be a parent, who wants to learn not to use spanking, HERE is a place for resource to help you and also provides more information on how to seek help. I believe that the evidence the author provided is well supported because she gave drastic stats and provide information to back up her argument. There are some potential issues with the research because she didn’t show how effective was if the child were to get spanked will it perform worst or
