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Section 43 Research Paper

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Section 43 of the criminal code gives parents and teachers some sort of a defense when it comes to corporal punishment as long as not too severe
As awareness on corporal punishment has grown, Section 43 has come into question many times
The part of Section 43 that is a defense is “Every schoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child, as the case may be, who is under his care, if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances”
Most justices have decided to allow Section 43 because it specifies that the punisher has to be the full guardian, meaning that it only focuses discipline and no ton adults defiling children
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In some culture corporal punishment is seen as to do with regaining honour, so children don’t take the act to heart as much as in western civilization, causing them to not have mental issues in the future
The line between corporal punishment and abuse, is when there are physical marks left and/or the reasoning is excessive for the misbehaviour
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The only benefit of corporal punishment is immediate obedience
Those who were corporally punished are more likely to abuse their spouses and children than the average person
Most cases of corporal punishment cause a rift between the child and parents, when the child is more mature
The main effect of corporal punishment is physical abuse and compliance for a short amount of time
Those that are corporally punished are more prone to rebelling against their parents when older than an average child
Corporal punishment results in children being more aggressive when older
The amount of times it happens and severity of corporal punishment have a large effect of it’s future consequences
Almost all the people who were heavily corporally punished as children develop mental issues when older
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While effective in the schools, children who were corporally punished had a high tendency to become more aggressive after school
Corporal punishment in a school was a teaching method that originated from european countries
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The result of a cross-culture on 186 cultural groups was that the higher the amount of corporal punishment is used, the child will be more aggressive and prone to interpersonal violence
The study also showed that the more frequent corporal punishment was, the more violent the person would be as an adult
Over 90% of Canadian parents have admitted to using corporal punishment at least once
A reason why corporal punishment is controversial is because the line between punishment and abuse is vague
Another reason is because even if the punishment is not abusive it still has bad future effects
Countries that had cultures that looked favourably upon corporal punishment had an average of 40% more corporal punishment on average than countries that didn’t
Some argue that if corporal punishment was looked down upon less in society, then its effects would reduce
Studies have shown that a country's homicide rate is unrelated to corporal punishment rate
Those same studies also showed that a country's degree of war with other countries is related to the rate of corporal

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