| Summary: | Parents who apply violence towards minors consider that physical punishments are the main means of disciplining the minor to comply with the rules of behavior imposed by the family. In the practice of many states, these punishments necessarily accompany the primary socialization process, being applied even in the first year after the birth of the minor, continuing during the preschool and school period, until the teenage years. These punishments often go beyond the permitted limits, resulting in serious injuries, up to fractures and trauma. Evidence shows that most of the parents who resort to these violent means grew up and were, themselves, educated in a family environment characterized by violence, being subjected to abuse themselves. In turn, an important part of the minors assaulted by these parents will become aggressors themselves, if violence as a means of discipline was supported by the existing beliefs and norms in the family.
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