Is child abuse hitting a child for no reason, beating your child because he's disobeying, or both?
Are they the same thing? Should it be legal to beat your child as punishment and illegal to hit a child for no reason, or should they both be illegal? Does beating even make a child good?
Hitting a child for being naughty and hitting a child because you feel like it are different. My Parents used to beat me with a belt, a wooden spoon and a hanger before when I did something really bad, And I've learnt my lesson, They didn't do it like every week then that just be stupid, more like 2 times a year. But if my parents slapped me because they thought I was useless or I was sleeping and they kicked me in the head (No no, they didn't do that ) they I guess thats abuse. Your parents shouldn't do it to the point where the child is paranoid, It just makes them know that If I do something bad I'll be hurt. Grounding doesn't do much, because what if they sneak on it? Most parents nowadays just shout and their children and ground them, but really, does it do anything?
If you are hitting and punishing a child for no reason then it is abuse. But if a child does something wrong and one of the parents do something that leads to a serious injury, fracture, broken bone, etc. it can also be considered abuse.
Like Josh said, hitting your child is pretty common with me and my friends...A smack or hit with a belt aren't bad at all but reinforce discipline.
The term punishing can be used in whatever way you want in a sense. If a parent thinks that abuse is right as a form of punishment, and they also want to punish their child for getting a B in math or whatever, or an actual bad grade (because some parents do get mad if their child isn't perfect) than they might beat their child for getting bad grades. Or for doing something little. And it could be viewed as just punishing, and the beating could be something extremely harmful. Personally, I think it's never okay to hit a child to discipline them, because there are always better ways.
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) they I guess thats abuse. Your parents shouldn't do it to the point where the child is paranoid, It just makes them know that If I do something bad I'll be hurt. Grounding doesn't do much, because what if they sneak on it? Most parents nowadays just shout and their children and ground them, but really, does it do anything?
