Smacking children should be banned
Smacking children should most definitely be banned. This is a cruel, heartless, preposterous way to treat your child, Violence is never the answer, and it could lead to further injury and its most likely going to be degrading to the victim. If you get too attached to smacking your child it might even lead to more vile abuse further in life.
How heartless can you get? Being this cruel to your child could lead to depression or maybe even suicide. In 2012, 1,901 male teens and 634 female teens committed suicide. That’s a total of 2,535 deaths which equals to an average of 6.9 deaths by suicide in Australia each day. It’s bad for kids mentally, physically and emotionally. Sure it may be the quickest and easiest form of discipline, but it’s wrong. It’s just a foolish way to treat a child.
Smacking is violent and is never the correct answer. Is just poor, lazy parenting. In 2010 it was discovered that there is a connection between being smacked as a child and mental illness as an adult. Its severe physical abuse, just being struck so hard it leaves a bruise or causing an injury in general is completely terrible. Smacking a child can get out of hand very easily.
Children who are abused can often go on to become abusers themselves as adults. As this is the only method of discipline they learnt growing up. 65% of adults exposed to violence as a child can carry with them trauma-related symptoms. Men and women who have grown up in the same