TITLE:
The Moratorium on Corporal Punishment Is a Justifiable Theorem for Child Behavioral and Psychological Development. An Anthropological Study: Based on Society and Culture in Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Md. Anowarul Azad, Meher Uz Zannat Sunny
KEYWORDS:
Corporal Punishment, CRC, Children Act (2013), Violence against Children, Global Society, Learning Theory, Socialization Theory, Positive Parenting, Child Discipline, The Best Interest of the Child, International Protection of Rights of the Child
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
30,
2023
ABSTRACT: Positive parenting through physical disciplinary strategy somehow
constructs many negative consequences in children’s society. Touching on the
frequent questionable aspects of Corporal punishment (CP) is defined as a kind
of bodily punishment given by the parent according to a prominent scholar.
Tracing the issues of children’s corporal punishment constructed on the culture
of different people in different places is to see the true scenario of CP. The
global commons are on Corporal punishment tags with their own cultures where some people’s
satisfaction denotes the children suffering through beating and snapping. The
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) focused on the effects of corporal
punishment which are then examined in light of learning theory, socialization theory, and
the child’s perspective. The chronological development of the guiding principle
of international instruments is directed with directives against Corporal
punishment and there our local legislation still has not marched enough though
measures are taken. In 2011 a circular was published by the Ministry of Education in
Bangladesh for banning corporal punishment in all educational settings. Based
on Policy Deviation to integrate international institutional norms with local
legislation to teach their children at home and school we observe the recent
scenario. A total of 70,027 children between the ages of 1 and 14 were included in
the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS, 2019),
which found that 88.8% of the children had experienced physical punishment
and/or psychological aggression by caregivers in the previous month, 30.2% had
experienced severe physical punishment, and only 6.4% had only encountered
non-violent discipline. 35% of the 53,772 moms and caregivers who replied to a
question about child discipline indicated that they thought a child should be
physically disciplined (Report of UNICEF Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Bureau
of Statistics (BBS), 2019; Bangladesh, Survey Findings Report, 2019, ProgotirPathey).
A Bangladesh national report carried out as part of the Children’s World Report
2020 into child well-being in 35 countries explored the situation of children
in three cities in Bangladesh: Barishal, 8 Rajshahi, and Moulvibazar. A total
of 3,090 children in 327 primary schools and 117 secondary schools participated
(Goswami, Ibrahim Khalil, & Banik, 2018, Children’s Worlds National Report Bangladesh). The
survey concluded that corporal punishment of children appears to be rooted in
Bangladesh culture and is still used in classrooms and other settings of
children’s lives. Some parents still believe disciplining children with corporal
punishment has some positive outcomes. They believe punishing children is an
integral part of rectifying their missbehavior at their parents’ house and while schooling teachers’
sensitivity is associated with some kinds of punishment for better results in
prospects. The outcome of quantitative research in 1980-1990 in the context of
CP seems to have some positive consequences to some extent but nowadays numerous
researches suggest that CP creates serious negative consequences and the majority
of parents in different societies have already banned this strategy based on
the evidence of numerous negative effects such as Causing conflict between
parents and children, making children aggressive behavior, having mental health
problems in childhood, and when they become adults they do the same to their
children a way of intergenerational transmission of physical punishment. Based
on the evidence of empirical research it suggested banning the approach of corporal punishment from all societies. The purpose of
the article is to demonstrate qualitative research methods to prove the adverse effects of CP
are concerned with children’s psychological development and the consequence of
positive parenting in Bangladesh to make a stronger social construction as a
global theory to Ban Corporal Punishment.