If you are an adult of a certain age, you were likely hit as a form of punishment as a child. If you are a grandparent, chances are even higher you got a wack if you stepped out of line. Yet various and numerous studies have shown that it is damaging to kids. Research shows that hitting kids for punishment can, among other things, cause direct physical harm, has negative impacts on mental and physical health, leads to poor moral internalization and increased antisocial behaviour, increased aggression and increased violent and criminal behaviour in adults, according to endcorporalpunishment.
Find out more on the impact of physical discipline on the WHO's website. According to the World Health Organization , one in four adults worldwide were physically abused as children.
One in two children aged two to 17 years β one billion children β were victims of some type of violence in the past year. In Canada, the Call to Action 6 of the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations demands the repeal of Section 43 of Canada's Criminal Code, which justifies the corporal punishment of children.
Globally, target German-based musician known on social media as celebritykid , is using TikTok to reach kids and rally them to fight back against physical punishments. It is also a personal issue for celebritykid , who says their dad used corporal punishment a few times when the musician was a kid, and it was traumatizing. It is really hard when someone you love and who loves you lashes out at you like that. And so, I think I put the emotion into the song as well, which is maybe why it resonated with people in the way that it has.
Because, yes, it is almost involuntary behaviour that's culturally ingrained. So it's hard to get out of that. But my point is that if children are of equal, deserving of equal respect, and also lack a voice politically, then we need to be even more careful to centre their emotions and their experience over that of the adults in the situation," they said.
