People often says: "Do not hit an adult, five-leafed chaste tree gives good person below the rod. " parents is when physical punishment child, always think oneself are to be in correct the wrong action with the child and antipathic society, the hope can be brought correct path to come up afresh. But, what parents sees is short-term effect only, namely the effect that physical punishment place expects to achieve. Parents did not realise this is a kind of behavior that feeds a bitter pill to swallow oneself. Children behavior psychology considers to discover, it is when 1 ～ is 3 years old the child that often has sufferred physical punishment, get affectation changeably, callous, eventful, be good at lying, have violent tendency; These behavior can be in after physical punishment inside a few weeks or a few months begin generation.
Of university of Er of assorted of cloth of American new rarely rub thunder? The research panel survey that Doctor Shitelaosi heads 807 mothers, the mother that discovers about 44 ％ has hit the child, the frequency of physical punishment child is weekly and average two; Among them, the mother of 24 ％ is hit 1 times every week, 14 ％ are 2 times, 10 ％ are 3 times. Because be not used in daily language " physical punishment " one word, "Beat on the buttocks " point to beat on the buttocks not only, it still includes ear of hatchet man the centre of the palm, pigheaded arm, hold tight to wait a moment, it is the pronoun of physical punishment. Why should hit the child? Parents emphasize, beat on the buttocks can achieve the goal that correct or dominates child action, "Correct " it is the obligation that answers to the child, as long as " physical punishment " it is to be inside the range that law permits.
Of the child that physical punishment causes go against oppose action, after can be in two years, expression of in some way comes out. Have 6 kinds of cases normally: The child is met now and then or often pilfer or lie; Crude to other manner or lack sympathizes with a heart; Did wrong after the event to lack self-confident heart; Often have ruinous or violent sexual behavior, the regulation of disobedient school; Cannot get along with the teacher harmonious etc. Researcher records two costs with graph, namely the violent value after parents suffers physical punishment to physical punishment value of the child and children. Paediatrics doctors discover, after two years, these two values become more and more adjacent, namely physical punishment value is greater, violent value is greater also. They will call " dosage concerns " or " action concerns " . Researcher proposal, decrease to eliminate physical punishment even, growing to the child's health is very beneficial, also be helpful for lowering violent rate of the society at the same time. Of course, a lot of people that had sufferred physical punishment when childhood, did not become the person that abuses children after be brought up, or turn depression into depressed person. This resembles is a person meeting go to the bad is same, be in proper " cure " or below environmental element, sicken person can escape the menace of serious illness.