The following are guidelines that Dr. Den Trumbull has used to advise the parents he serves in disciplining children. These guidelines should help policymakers appreciate the legitimacy of disciplinary spanking. Den A. Trumbull, M.
Smacking should leave at the most only transient redness of the skin and should never cause physical injury. If properly administered smackings are ineffective, other appropriate disciplinary responses should be tried, or the parent should seek professional help.
Parents should never increase the intensity of smackings. Click here for a copy of these guidelines. There has been much research done in this area. But the studies cited by opponents of corporal punishment do not adequately distinguish the effects of smacking , as practiced by nonabusive parents, from the impact of severe physical punishment and abuse.
Nor do they consider other factors that might account for problems later in life, like whether defiant or aggressive children might be more likely to be smacked in the first place.
It simply assumes that the outcomes of a light smack will be the same as a child who is physically abused. Yet research in NZ completely refutes this. A Otago University study found that children who were smacked in a reasonable way had similar or slightly better outcomes in terms of aggression, substance abuse, adult convictions and school achievement than those who were not smacked at all.
This comes as some comfort to Ray, whose anti-smacking stance makes him an outlier in his age bracket, and he suggests younger generations are "more informed or socially more relaxed, because my generation in life was fairly intense.
Still, ABC readers have shared their own views on the issue and reveal there remains a broad range of deeply held opinions on the topic. It didn't do me any harm," Kathy said. There is a massive misguided sense of entitlement in today's little darlings," Gary said. I became quite angry and resentful that someone could punish a child so harshly for doing what kids do," Sue said.
So no, it's not an acceptable form of discipline," Akira said. The Australia Talks National Survey asked 54, Australians about their lives and what keeps them up at night. Use our interactive tool to see the results and how Australians' answers compare with yours — available in English, simplified Chinese, Arabic and Vietnamese.
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