The controversial topic which interests me is spanking. Spanking is defined as an act of slapping especially on buttocks as a way of punishment preferably for the children. The two academic articles based on child development include effects of spanking on kid’s brain and the case against spanking. This controversial topic has been debated over time, whether parents have to practice spanking on their children or not. The issue is that, more than half of the women and the three quarters of men preferably in US tend to believe that a child needs a good hard spanking sometimes. In a controversial way, the scientists have exposed the real effects of spanking on children but parents tend to believed that spanking is good in child development. Most of the people do not agree with the appropriate information which researches have exposed. The reason is that the scientists argue that spanking is a sort of physical punishment and it alters the children brain. Meaning that, spanking is a bad way of canning a child for a wrongdoing. It actually results in less gray matter preferably in some sort of prefrontal cortex which results in depression, addiction together with other mental health disorders. This aspect reveals how researchers have found significant correlations in between amount of gray matter in children’s brains regions together with children’s performance on IQ Test. However, if children are exposed to corporal punishment they may end up being in detrimental effects especially on trajectories of their brain development. The second article “the case against spanking” explores how researches have indicated the forms of physical disciplines like spanking to pose dangerous and serious risk to the children but most of the parents have not yet considered these forms of threats to their children. There are negative effects of spanking on children like an increase of aggregation, antisocial behavior, the physical injury together with the mental health problems for the children. It is true that, the controversy issue regarding spanking is that it presents an evidence of harm which results to violation of the human rights. In different countries, there have banned the physical punishment of children especially in US in which the legal bans have been applied as a public educa