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Popular wisdom testifies that a child who is not raised on a belt does not become a responsible person. Science would like to change this: a battered child grows up with a person with post-traumatic stress disorder and communication problems. Corporal punishment not only hurts children, it doesn’t work either. Children do not act better because of this, but simply begin to avoid what really causes physical pain: communication with their parents. It doesn’t matter if you have a dog, the only thing that matters is if your parents find out. And when they don’t know, you can not only punish, but also explain why it is inappropriate to do so. Not hitting a child alone does not mean that parenting is good. But hitting always means poor breeding.
A new study from Harvard University has revealed that corporal punishment changes the structure of children’s brains. They are more prone to anxiety, depression, behavior problems (!), And other mental health disorders.
The researchers examined the brains of 147 children. 40 of them were punished with beatings (“slaps” as the parents who beat it call it), 107 were not subjected to corporal punishment. The researchers spoke to these children and then scanned their brains with an MRI. The children were shown photos of actors showing different emotions. It turned out that the children who experienced corporal punishment responded to the emotion of fear in a similar way to those who experienced severe sexual or physical abuse. Researchers say this is further proof that corporal punishment is coercion.
The fact that beaten and undefeated children react differently to different emotions does not surprise the researchers. People who have suffered corporal punishment in childhood often face emotional problems on their own. They also find it harder to understand and empathize with other people’s emotions. They are also often plagued by the obvious symptoms of PTSD, which are often ignored due to the prevailing notion that punishing children with slapping or yelling is perfectly normal.
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