Child Advocacy
1. What kinds of punishment were used in your family or your ethnic group when you were a child?
2. Remember and describe a time when you were punished physically as a child (or when you witnessed a child being punished physically). What happened and how did it make you feel at the time?
3. How do your own personal experiences of corporal punishment affect your professional work on this issue? Do these experiences make it harder or easier to work with people from specific cultural groups? How would you work with a family that insists on its legal right to use corporal punishment but has been physically abusive on at least one occasion?
4. Describe the relationship between corporal punishment and physical abuse.
5. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement, and why: "Children should never be spanked or slapped for purposes of education or control?