Essays on Family

Introduction In many parts of the world, particularly the West, there is a history of parents and guardians being allowed to spank their children as a way of instilling discipline. In one way or the other, spanking seems to be instantly effective since a misbehaving...

Statement of Problem Do mothers favor spanking as a form of discipline over fathers? Many children have been disciplined by their parents using corporal punishment for misbehaving. There are benefits of spanking your children; many believe it teaches children appropriate behavior. The stereotypical thought is...

Spanking and corporal punishment have been a hotly debated topic for many years. And like any socio-behavioral trend, is bound to have differing implications and implementations depending on variables such as culture, time, quantity, gender, and what definition of spanking is used, etc. For this essay,...

The media article I chose to review was focused on the negative effects of spanking on children and youth. In the two articles that I analyzed, they authors provided evidence suggesting that spanking is an important aspect to the study of children and youth because...

Spanking your child has always been a heated discussion among guardians and non-guardians alike. There have all the earmarks of being just opposite sides to the contention, those for and those against. Every offer proof to help their case, and the two sides are intense...

When we talk about physical punishment in children, we usually attribute it to a compassionate corrective which intention is to modify the behavior of the kid but in a non-injurious way. However, the nature of the punishment proves otherwise. Before we move forward, it is...

Do parents have the right to spank their children? This question has confused millions of parents who want and have tried to physically discipline their children. The definition of abuse has changed so much over the years; it has taken away the parents rights and...

The debate regarding corporal punishment has been raging for years: Is it appropriate to spank your children? While individual opinions will vary, I personally believe that corporal punishment is a tool that parents should be able to utilize. Children may have trouble learning lessons if...

“Only a spank, only a slap, only a pinch.” Would these forms of corporal punishment be considered minimal action for major headway or minimal action for major costs? Speculations on whether corporal punishment serves as an effective teaching method aimed at behavior modifications have intensified...

In The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison outlines the experiences that have shaped his life as African American man. As a result of racism, discrimination and/or prejudice that has been perpetuated through the generations he feels nonexistent. He feels like he is not accepted as a...

My life was begun with learning the history of my family who experienced turbulent Korean society in the 1900s. When I was coming back home after I was born in 1985 winter as twins in a hospital in Busan, where is the second-largest city in...

Both poems provide a deeply personal insight into the individual experience of family bonds, in ‘Eden Rock’ this is conveyed through the encounter between a speaker and his parents, who are implied to be dead, as they prepare a picnic. The scene unfolds through a...

Wow, aren’t genealogies exciting?? I’ll be honest, I’ve been a little worried about reading this out loud in front of everyone. But if you’re like me, you might be wondering – Why in the world would Matthew’s Gospel – the first book in the New...

“Breast-feeding is the process of feeding a mother’s breast milk to her infant, either directly from the breast or by expressing (pumping out) the milk from the breast and bottle-feeding it to the infant.” The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breast-feeding a baby for...

Marriage is one of the oldest family institutions. It entails two people coming together with the aim of starting a family. Ideally, two people decide to get married after familiarizing themselves with each other and falling in love. However, arranged marriages are still common practices...

In this essay I am going to explain my family history. It is almost a tradition to go into the army, or into different areas related to that, like the Marines, in my family. My uncle, my mother’s father, my great grandfather, and the father...

There are approximately 7.7 billion human beings around the world. So what sets me apart from others? It is my identity that sets me apart from others. I think of it as singular (male) and multifaceted (family identity). To me family identity means a socially...

Arranged marriage was a big problem back in the days and it is still a problem in some parts of the world. Usually arranged by parents or grandparents, arranged marriages were very common throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. But is arranged marriage a positive...

This winter break, I found science everywhere I went. It started on the 20th when my friends and I walked to another one of my friend’s house to make gingerbread houses and exchange gifts. While making gingerbread houses, you need to have a stiff enough...