Essays on Parenting

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...

“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...

For years Gay parenting has been looking at differently in society. In the media, in the politics and in history. It has been viewed as a bad influence to some people and a good influence to the others. There are some major issues and challenges...

In 2015, Judge Janis Graham Jack called the Texas foster care system broken and unconstitutional and wrote that “those labeled permanent wards of the state ‘almost uniformly leave state custody more damaged than when they entered’”. After her stating that, numerous news organizations picked it...

By nature, mothers feed their newborn by breast milk. In the past, they even had to ask for their neighbors if they did not have enough milk. Later with the development of science, infant formula was invented to do the same job as human milk....

Parenting goes hand in hand with the development of a child. It is crucial for one to be knowledgeable of the best and most effective parenting style to raise a healthy, happy individual. Parenting styles are “the patterns of practices that parents exhibit in relation...

The question of adoption or fostering by LGBT whether living with a partner or not remains controversial. There is one view that such applicants should not be excluded from consideration providing they can satisfy an agency that they can provide a home in which a...

With around three hundred million Americans and close to six billion people worldwide, parenting skills are important to maintain a healthy society. Parenting involves many aspects and requires many skills. It’s a time to look after, direct, and develop proper skills adolescents will need to...

Overtime people wonder what the difference is between Chinese parents and Western parents and how both families raise their children. Chinese parents raise their children way differently than Western parents, the opposite. In this novel “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” written by Amy Chua...

It is well known that the way a child is treated affects their growth and how they may turn out to be in the future. This, of course, goes along with other factors, but the main one being parenting and which kind of style is...

The world climbs in population every year, meaning new parents enter the workforce daily. With this influx of new parents, a wide variety of ideas change and adapt over time as people try to figure out what the “best” take on parenting is. Sadly, some...