Adult-centric debate about corporal punishment systematically omitted children’s own account

Evidence

This asymmetry is not a bias in the child-reported data. It is information about whose perspective was missing when the debate was conducted among adults. The debate about corporal punishment has been conducted, for most of its history, as a debate among adults about what to do to children. The children’s arc argues that it should have been, and should now be, a debate that includes children’s own account of what is being done to them. — , The Rod and the Child, 9881

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the standing-reader interest in who gets to speak in a policy debate — echoes feminism and standpoint-theory themes from the reader’s library. — connects to: Freire’s dialogical pedagogy made corporal punishment structurally obsolete — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5056; The harms of hitting children were invisible to traditional frameworks — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8177; Adult childhood memory is an unreliable substitute for asking children directly. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8290 (+9 more)

Related

• Post-1989 ignorance about children’s own views on punishment is no longer a tenable excuse (similarity 0.87)
• Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified (similarity 0.86)
• The harms of hitting children were invisible to traditional frameworks (similarity 0.84)
• Adult childhood memory is an unreliable substitute for asking children directly. (similarity 0.84)
• The prohibition debate created space for adults to name childhood punishment as significant. (similarity 0.84)
• Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them (similarity 0.83)
• Children’s fairness objection to hitting arises from moral perception, not cultural transmission. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural normativeness does not reduce the harm of child corporal correction. (similarity 0.82)
• Corporal punishment is concentrated on society’s least powerful members (similarity 0.81)
• Freire’s dialogical pedagogy made corporal punishment structurally obsolete (similarity 0.81)
• Children across fifteen countries universally report being hit as painful and unfair (similarity 0.81)
• Children experience punishment as relational harm rather than learning the intended lesson (similarity 0.80)
• Child beating is enabled by structural conditions, not just individual choices (similarity 0.80)
• School corporal punishment abolition in Britain stemmed from parental rights, not children’s rights holdings (similarity 0.80)
• Children hit without understanding why are processing relational rupture, not learning a lesson. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Post-1989 ignorance about children’s own views on punishment is no longer a tenable excuse #corroborates (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 10134
• Children experience punishment as relational harm rather than learning the intended lesson #exemplifies (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 10941