PSA:
Hitting children is wrong. Full stop.
If you can’t think of a better way to discipline a child, a tiny human who is smaller than you, you need to re-evaluate your approach.
There is NOTHING that a child, who is on the losing end of the power imbalance, can do that warrants striking them. Ever.
Children are an oppressed class of humans. They have no rights, very little protections, and they are among the most vulnerable. Many adults even argue that they don’t have the right to exist in public (which is a very anti-woman argument, but I digress). They are not property, they are people. Full human beings who are looking to you for guidance. You do not have a right to hit another human. It is illegal to strike another adult, so why is it OK to hit a child?
I will not argue with people who justify it. Ever. I have nothing to say to you.
There are some things in this world that are just too fucked up. Child abuse apologizm is one of them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I think I just heard the “Et Ressurexit” from B Minor mass playing. That or the Amen fugue at the end of “Messiah”.
To add data to this anti-corporal punishment fun, research indicates that using corporal punishment is no more effective than any other form of positive punishment and I’ve seen a study that suggests that it makes children more likely to lie. So, on top of it being unethical, it also fails to accomplish anything.
Also, if you do use corporal punishment on your child in a fit of anger, you are only using the social acceptability of corporal punishment to sublimate your desire to hit your child. Which makes you an abuser. Full stop. End of story.
Reblogging for data and excellent point (bolded, bold mine)
I am constantly shocked at how unpopular of an opinion this is.
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