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Violence in American families takes many forms. One prevalent form that we often
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is the physical punishment of children. Perhaps 93 per cent of all parents beat their children in order to
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them. Young children receive the most punishment, but studies reveal that about 50 per cent of high school
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report experiencing or being threatened with physical punishment. Punishment of children varies from a light tap to a brutal beating, but
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we have granted parents the right to use physical force against their children. A law passed in 1696, for example, called for the death
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for a child of "sufficient understanding" over the age of sixteen who cursed or struck a parent or who was "stubborn and
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" in refusing to obey a parent.
Most parents use physical punishment
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that it will control the aggression in their children and make them
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. In fact, violence—whether verbal or physical—sets children a poor example. An adult who yells at or slaps a child unwittingly supplies the child with a model for aggression. Studies have found that the frequent use of physical punishment for aggressive acts by a child
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a marked increase in the child’s aggression. Perhaps not surprisingly, abusive parents are themselves likely to have been abused when they were children. The pattern of abuse is unwittingly
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parent to child and thus from generation to generation.
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