A high index of families still use assaults as a method of discipline within the family.
According to the 2015 National Survey of Children and Women in Mexico of the United Nations Children’s Fund, 63% of children from 0 to 14 years old in Mexico have been victims of physical or psychological attacks as a method of discipline at home .
Juan Martín Pérez, executive director of the Network for Children’s Rights México AC commented that? Everyone continues to normalize corporal punishment, humiliating treatment for educational purposes as permitted and necessary. Hitting a person, causing injury to a person, is a crime; Do we have flaws in our legislative framework that prevent it from being adequately covered?
According to the survey, 53 percent of children are subjected to psychological assaults; while 44 percent have been the victim of physical assault. It was also revealed that in six percent of the cases they were subjected to severe punishment that results in blows to the head, ears or face, or blows with force and repeatedly.
Most households, the study says, employ a combination of violent disciplinary practices. ? Any subject that crosses the bodily or physical sphere is violence, a spanking, a push, using an instrument such as a belt, or a shoe, or the hands, anything that violates your body is corporal punishment. We have the cruel and humiliating treatment that is mockery, indifference ?, Juan Martín Pérez explained.
In general, respondents with low educational attainment and those living in poorer households are more likely to consider physical punishment as necessary to discipline children. And according to scientific evidence, children’s exposure to violent discipline has serious consequences in childhood and adult life.