Now she had a vehicle for her pride. She had always been proud of her daughter, a bright intelligent daughter. Not many from the village had got into Grammer School in recent years. She knew that a lot of her peers in the W.I. Would be saying that very night…”I hear Karen got into Grammer school, she deserves it, her Mummy will be so proud.”

This is the second time this week you’ve failed to memorize your Bible lesson,” Aunt Connie said. “Perhaps a whipping will help you concentrate.” Gershoff ET, Grogan-Kaylor A. Spanking and child outcomes: old controversies and new meta-analyses. J Fam Psychol. 2016;30(4):453–69. I saw Lindsy at 2:00 and gave her a punishment spanking while Bobbie-Jo watched. Lindsy needed a reminder of what happens to naughty girls when they text and drive plus she didn’t get all her assignments done on time. I used my hand, leather straps, paddles, and hairbrushes. Fortier J, Stewart-Tufescu A, Salmon S, et al. Associations between lifetime spanking/slapping and adolescent physical and mental health and behavioral outcomes. Can J Psychiatry. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/7067437211000632. Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Set in a tough working-class environment of 1970s Glasgow, various scenes depict the liberal use of corporal punishment in the protagonist's (John McGill) catholic school. In one, a boy and two girls are strapped on their palms by the headmaster; in another, John is similarly punished by his teacher. [28] And not just horror, either. There was also guilt. I had been doing the same exact thing, burning the paper right along side them...But I didn't get caught. Now they were taking the punishment that I should've also received. The combination of that guilt and the fear of also being found out and punished was starting to make me tear up as I sat there, waiting to be taken home. The pain did not leave, it was still growing. Even in the dark of night she could feel the heat on her hand. And lying on her tummy, stroking her poor bottom, she fell asleep. Karen listened, and the message sank in. She knew her Mummy did not do idle talk as regards discipline.

When I was 21, right after I graduated from college, I began dating Brandon, a brilliant, charismatic, confident 22-year-old. I loved how his dominant, even arrogant, personality manifested itself between the sheets. (Really, the only place I could put up with such a personality.) I didn’t have to ask for him to spank or dominate me because he did it naturally, and I didn’t feel like I was “choosing” to be submissive. But when we broke up after nine months, I knew I wanted the next guy I dated to be dominant in bed, like Brandon had been. I did a little Googling about submission and spanking fetishes and discovered it was a lot of other people’s fetishes, as well. Karen got out and some involuntary action told her to stand to attention. Anything good right now, might stop the severity of what was to come. In Karen’s case Mummy simply said, “I have signed it, and returned it already. Let me say this just once Karen. If you are ever punished at school, you will be punished again at home, understood?”These findings point to the urgency of shifting beliefs about spanking in Canada. Findings from the current study indicate that the belief that spanking is normative is likely transmitted across generations from parent to child, so efforts to change these beliefs may well reduce intergenerational cycles of violence against children. There is evidence to suggest that prohibiting physical punishment of children is related to decreased support for physical punishment, and can serve to challenge views of the convention and necessity of such practices [ 47, 48] However, law reform alone is not enough. Prevention efforts that begin during adolescence, before many become parents themselves, may be effective in reducing the belief that spanking is a normal part of parenting. We are not aware of any existing prevention initiatives targeting adolescents. However, results from a recent systematic review of intervention programs designed to promote healthy romantic relationships in youth did show evidence across several studies for changes in beliefs about acceptance of dating violence among those in intervention groups compared to controls [ 49]. These findings should encourage the development and evaluation of adolescent interventions with the aim of shifting beliefs about spanking.