2023-11-20 18:00:00
Spanking is the best known, but ordinary educational violence can take several forms. First physical with the use of spankings, slaps, food deprivation but also verbal with the use of insults, threats, mockery and finally psychological using blackmail, guilt and other methods.
Studies show that all forms of educational violence are extremely harmful to the child’s brain. Catherine Gueguen is a pediatrician and specialist in affective neuroscience. She observes that children who have experienced significant stress present delays in the development of their frontal and orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain useful for coping with emotions and stress.
Harvard University psychiatrist Martin Teicher has shown that corporal punishment can lead to vulnerabilities towards drugs, alcohol and can lead to depression, anxiety disorders and aggression. in adults. Furthermore, no study has been able to prove any effectiveness of corporal punishment on child behavior.
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