fandomsandfeminism:

What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking?

Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights.

You mean when you don’t teach your children that violence solves problems then they stop using violence to solve their own problems? Impossible.

rasticore:

emotionalempowerer:

The fuck people confused about?

How the fuck the mother not age

motherbychoice:

I see people (mostly cis men) all the time claiming that it’s super easy to just name anyone you want as the father of your children and take their money.

Could someone please tell me how to do this? Extra money would be great. And I’d like to claim Jeff Bezos as their father.

Life hack

Spanking Is Ineffective and Harmful to Children, Pediatricians’ Group Says

Recent studies
have also shown that corporal punishment is associated with increased
aggression and makes it more likely that children will be defiant in the
future. Spanking alone is associated with outcomes similar to those of
children who experience physical abuse, the new academy statement says.

There are potential ramifications to the brain as well: A 2009 study
of 23 young adults who had repeated exposure to harsh corporal
punishment found reduced gray matter volume in an area of the prefrontal
cortex that is believed to play a crucial role in social cognition.
Those exposed to harsh punishment also had a lower performance I.Q. than
that of a control group.

laguzmage:

positive-memes:

That kid’s gonna grow up to be a successful adult

weepingangel221b:

musicalflashinglights:

queerpunkhamlet:

overlypolitebisexual:

as a parent it is your god damn fucking job to look after your children stop treating your children like they are burdens

you signed up to have a child, the child did not sign up to have you as a parent

keep this in mind. do not expect your children to immediately give you back all the things you give them. they are children. love them. cherish them. treat them well.

koyla:

ever wanna raise an emotionally sound child just to flex on your parents ?

It feels so wrong that the prospect of meeting my own father in any setting, even ones that are supposed to be pleasant, fills me with dread for days beforehand. Even when a meeting goes well it feels like a crisis averted, not the norm. If I achieve one thing in my life, let it be that I never give my son reason to fear spending time with me and talking to me.