Spanked

How Hitting Our Children Is Harming Ourselves
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-751823-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Spanked: How Hitting Our Children is Harming Ourselves is a historical and cultural analysis of the long accepted practice of hitting children for learning and obedience. The book begins with understanding who spanks and how the practice of using a hand to hit the buttocks of children evolved. Erickson explores the cultural factors from historical magazine articles and parenting books to contemporary beliefs that support this type of discipline. Spanking's connections to a variety of topics are clarified, including the feelings of parents, perceptions of children, potential child abuse, school corporal punishment, attachment and bonding, the legal language that allows hitting of one's children but not others, and international perspectives on physical punishment.

The book invites an exploration of who we are as parents, and as a society, and what family leadership really means. Book group questions for families, professionals, and organizations lend the book useful for conversation and dialogue in libraries, living rooms, offices, and classrooms. Erickson gives readers an open platform to discuss respectfully what we are really communicating when we spank children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erickson, Christina L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Arzt-Patient-Beziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I

- Chapter 1 Whupping, Paddling, and Smacking: A Spank By Any Other Name Still Stings

- Chapter 2 History and Mystery

- Chapter 3 Limits, Laws and Little Mary Ellen

- Chapter 4 Research and Revival

- Part II

- Chapter 5 School Paddling: The Only Legal Place Beyond the Home

- Chapter 6 Spanking Around the World

- Part III

- Chapter 7 In the Privacy of the Home

- Chapter 8 In the Public Sphere

- Chapter 9 Modern Family

- Chapter 10 Leaving Spanking Where It Belongs: Behind Us

- Methods and Final Thoughts

- Book Group Questions

- Questions for Professionals and Organizations

- References

- Appendix A: Laws on Physical Child Abuse in the USA

- Appendix B: Definition of School Corporal Punishment and Legal Language

- Appendix C: School Corporal Punishment Administration and Required Parental Communication

- Appendix D: Bans on Physical Punishment of Children: Year and Country

- Appendix E: Policy Language of National Bans on Physical Punishment

Über Autor(innen)

Christina L. Erickson, PhD is a social worker and professor who has worked in community social work, health care, and academic settings for over 30 years. She is a Professor of Social Work and Environmental Studies at Augsburg University. She hopes to further the conversation on the harm of spanking. You can find her at [e-mail].