SPANKING – NARROWING!

1. What is your topic?

The spanking of children. 

2. What interests you in this topic?  Why did you choose it?

This topic came of interest to me because as a child, I was abused by my alcoholic father for many years and when my mother moved out, she tried so hard to get the courts/law officials to do something about our father abusing my brother and I, but the courts/law officials did nothing about it.  All that time I wondered, how much is going to be enough?  How much will it take for the officials to realize that his methods of discipline are not just spanking, but beating and abuse? 

3. Why does your topic matter?  Why should other people care about it?

This topic matters because adults need to be able to discipline their children, and to some degree, spanking may be a method of disipline.  However, it can be taken to the extreme way too easily, in which parents then are abusing their children to discipline them, rather than simply spanking them. 

4. How can you quailfy (or limit) your topic? 

Spanking.  How much is enough?  

5. Can you limit your topic by geography or location?

The spanking of children in the (South, certain states (which ones prohibit spanking?)).

6. By time?

Spanking (today?).

7. By specific groups affected? 

Children (1-10)

8. What other questions can you think of? 

** How much does the law consider “too much”?

** What are other means of “discipline” that can be used in place of spanking? 

** How might spanking affect a child’s life later on?

4 comments March 6, 2007