Spanking, Annotated Bibliography Example

Best, J. (1994). Troubling children: Studies of children and social problems New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

This book explained how the concept of spanking changed over the years.

Crary, E. (1993). Without spanking or spoiling: A practical approach to toddler and preschool guidance. Seattle, WA: Parenting Press, Inc.

Guidelines in raising toddlers and preschoolers are the main subjects of this book.

Hoff, H. (2015). Parental spanking bans and societal disinterest in children. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

This book explore the statistics on the higher rate of child abuse after minimal spanking was ban in EU countries.

Hupp, S. & Jewell, J. (2015). Great Myths of Child Development. UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Interviews and opinion on spanking as well as the tabulated data about spanking are presented in this book.

Lehman, B. & Lehman, E. (2009). Raise civilized kids. Bring back the disciplines. Mustang: OK: Tate Publishing & Enterprise.

This book provides the guidelines on spanking. The pros and cons of spanking are laid out.

Rosemond, J. (2000). Raising a nonviolent child. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

The author elucidates on the concept that most parents do not know how to properly incorporate spanking into the discipline and that parents are doing it wrong.

Straus, M., Douglas, E. & Medeiros, R. (2014). The primordial violence: Spanking children, psychological development, violence and crime. UK: Routledge.

This book provided the definition of spanking and also stated the various opinions of the public about spanking.

Wesselmann, D., Schweitzer. C. & Armstrong. S. (2014). Integrative parenting: Strategies for raising children affected by attachment trauma. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

The authors of this book presented some insights on why spanking should not be allowed and some instances where spanking did not cause any harm to the children.