The damages of abuse are well known. They come in many forms, forms that can be categorized in the following ways; these damages will be some or all of:
Physical
Emotional
Psychological
Cognitive
The damages of corporal punishment form the very same list. This is why corporal punishment is being outlawed across the civilized world.
But corporal punishment is not only physical. How do you bring physical hurt to a person – a child – without hurting their feelings? How does an adult cause physical hurt to a child without offending the child’s mind?
So the other three categories come free with the first, and pain from each category brings its corresponding damage. It seems more than just likely that pain from the non-physical categories will bring their own damages with or without representation from the purely physical.
What is “non-corporal punishment” anyway?
Would anyone really like to step up and advocate for:
emotional punishment?
psychological punishment?
cognitive punishment?
Anyone?
Anyone at all . . .
Abuse with an Excuse 