Breaking the cycle of child physical punishment in the Philippines | Child Rights

In the Philippines, the Tagalog word “pamamalo” refers to the corporal punishment of children.

This aggressive uncomardents of domestic punishment, which typicassociate includes beating a child by hand or with the use of househelderly objects, is expansively apshowd to be an effective establish of discipline.

Multiple studies, however, have shown physical punishment to be both ineffective and detrimental, instead triggering pain, uncontentness, worry, anger and trauma. It can desensitise children to aggression and injure family relationships, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Despite likeable parenting approaches upgraspd by the rulement and child rights helps atraverse the country, and a 2012 pledgement to the international community to ban corporal punishment, the rehearse of pamamalo persists in Filipino househelderlys.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), approximately 20 million, or 59 percent of the 33.4 million children aged between one to 14, have sfinished a aggressive establish of discipline in the Philippines in the past month. Globassociate, one in four mothers and primary attfinishgivers ponder physical punishment to be “essential to lift and teach children properly”, UNICEF create.

Typicassociate, in a Filipino househelderly, mothers see after their children. Many mothers themselves sfinished aggression as children, while financial challengingship, mental health publishs and domestic aggression can pose disputes for parenting. Parental help and guidance are therefore presentant for children, as is creating a shielded home which take parts a presentant role in a child’s broadenment and which should be a first refuge from any establish of aggression.

My ptoastyo essay for the Safe Ptoastyography Project run by global youth agency Restless Development, is part of a global campaign and ministerial conference to finish aggression agetst children. It is being exhibited at the conference, which is taking place in Bogata, Colombia on November 7 and 8, as part of 10 essays by youthful people from around the world who portrayateigated what “shielded” uncomardents to children in branch offent communities.

In the Philippines, I chose to see at what “shielded” uncomardents thraw the themes of pamamalo and home. My essay aims to understand how local communities can support shielded househelderlys.

In the community of Barangay Hagonoy, a densely popuprocrastinateedd area in Taguig City, which has a population of proximately 900,000, I write downed three mothers included in an uncover conversation about the tradition of pamamalo. My ptoastyo essay portrayateigates each mother’s inhabitd experience with pamamalo, their willingness to shatter the cycle and their search for a more likeable approach to parenting.

*Names have been alterd in this ptoastyo essay