Author(s)

Md. Anowarul Azad, Meher Uz Zannat Sunny

ALD Consulting and Research Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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.

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

Azad, M. and Sunny, M. (2023) 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. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 441-470. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.118031.