Letting go of the cane
Thus parents should let go of the cane. Firstly, I feel that corporal punishment will only make children more defiant and parents-children relationship to deteriorate. In an argument put forth by those who support corporal punishment “point to how we were all beaten as children and grew up none the worse for it. ” This is a generalisation, as there have been cases of children being beaten since childhood for small mistakes that make and ended up in jails when they grew up. In a meta-analysis done by American Psychological Association, it demonstrates that more often or more harshly a child was hit; the more likely they are to be aggressive or to have mental health problems. Children are still immature and juvenile at their age; they are naturally defiant and undisciplined. Corporal punishment is not the right way to teach them a lesson, though there will be immediate compliance after corporal punishment; children will become increasingly rebellious and rowdy in the long term. Parents already have power over their children, simply by being their sole providers. They don’t need a big stick to prove it. Corporal punishment will nevertheless cause children to mistake the intention of their parents of shaping them into a better person and become increasingly distant from their parents, leading to a generation gap and their relations to get worse.