Corporal punishment is physical and psychological abuse. It is in the title: punishment is a judgement and corporal is the violence.
There is no such thing as corporal punishment that is also not an abuse. Maybe there is a scale of it but it is abuse.
Are you suggesting that judging your child's actions as wrong is psychological abuse?
> There is no such thing as corporal punishment that is also not an abuse.
That's incorrect, and the legal precedent has been clear on the legality of spanking and the distinction from abuse:
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/defining/disc-abuse/
Nobody said that. We are saying that corporal punishment is physical abuse.
> the legal precedent has been clear on the legality of spanking and the distinction from abuse
An action does not need to be illegal in all areas (or illegal at all) to be a form of abuse. Corporal punishment causes negative emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes in children regardless of whether it is used in an area where it is legal or illegal. It is physical abuse and a poor method of parenting that is detrimental to the children's long-term welfare.
> Lifetime spanking/slapping was independently associated with increased odds of mental health disorders, physical health conditions, and defiant behaviors in adolescence after adjusting for childhood adversities and child maltreatment (unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios ranging from 1.29 to 2.19).
> These findings suggest that lifetime spanking/slapping is uniquely associated with harmful mental, physical, and behavioral outcomes in adolescence, and efforts should focus on its prevention.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07067437211000...
No, it's saying that infrequent lead exposure is not as harmful as most think, and certainly not as harmful as other environmental pollutants that are more pervasive.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/30/one-in-t...
How is that judgement communicated? Without that information the question is incomplete.
That even worse abuses such as molestation, rape, and murder exist is not a justification for corporal punishment (physical discipline), which has been shown to cause negative emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes in children. Corporal punishment is a form of physical abuse, considering these negative outcomes.
> The Resolution on Physical Discipline of Children By Parents, adopted by APA’s Council of Representatives in February, relies on strong and sophisticated longitudinal research that finds physical discipline does not improve behavior and can lead to emotional, behavioral and academic problems over time, even after race, gender and family socioeconomic status have been statistically controlled.
Fortunately, that's not the argument I made.
The effects of corporal punishment are small compared to the effects of molestation and physical abuse. If corporal punishment were our only "issue", we'd be much better off. I wouldn't even classify this under "the very basics".