Parents of different cultures in our society are searching for the perfect solution to raise happy, healthy, children. The controversial issue of using corporal punishment is constantly being disputed by many different societies.
             In 1980 a highly credentialed group of sociologists published, Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family. With eight years of gathering interviews and research they found that eighty-three percent of 2,143 parents interviewed which were all from different cultural backgrounds, admitted using some form of violence on their children at some time in the child's life. Violence is an act carried out with the intention to cause physical pain or injury (Strause, Gelles, and Steinmeitz).
             Corporal punishment is still widely used on children. Unfortunately it can have severe consequences. Professor Philip Greven, of the State University of New Jersey writes, "The pain and suffering experiences by children who have been physically punished resonate through time, first during the seeming endless days and nights of childhood and adolescence, and later through the lives as we lead as adults". In the book, Athapaskan Adaptions, James Vanstone states; "that Athapaskan children are rarely punished by corporal punishment, but disciplinary action would be taken if a child failed to adjust or was slow to take over socially approved habits".
             Many parents continue to use physical punishment to discipline their children for various reasons. The most common reason is the belief that if parents truly love their children and care about there well-being, then they must impose their authority, values and cultural beliefs on the child. This belief is based on the fear of spoiling a child. This suggests that children whose wants are met will become selfish and inconsiderate adults. In the book Dancing with a Ghost, Ross believed that the native people of Canada did not interfere ...