“Beating A Child Turns Them To Violent Adults” – Victoria Inyama

Former Nollywood star and domestic violence advocate, Victoria Inyama has taken to her Instagram page to express her stance on corporal punishment.

Inyama says she’s totally against it because research proves that beating a child incubates aggression, conduct disorder, depression and more. Read her post below;

 I am totally against beating a child & research has proved that beating damages children & breeds them into Violent Adults!

Parents should Recognise & Respect children’s feelings! Teach their children how to manage conflicts & Negative feelings without Violence!!

Violence is learned Behavior! Pinker 202:178, 308.

Children that grow up with Physical punishments as the norm also take out their frustrations on others …The brain reacts to environmental challenges in various conscious ways/actions, levels of Norepinephrine & Dopamine often rise to produce a type of Aggression. 💥 Coercive Parenting is Wrong!!!

Parents that beat haven’t learnt to Regulate their own feelings & use appropriate strategies!!

💥 Beating a child incubates Aggression & conduct disorder, Depression, lack of confidence, drug addiction, hostile & lack of good communication skills!!

💥 A child that is trained through violence will always use violence to communicate because they don’t how else to manage conflict!! The more physical & verbal abuse a child gets. The more they expect it, the more they Rebel & become Defiant…

💥 Aggressive behaviour is the result of CHRONIC MISTREATMENT, McBurnett et al. 2000.

Victoria Inyama who was once a Nollywood sweetheart came into limelight with her role in the poplar Nigerian soap opera, ‘Ripples’ she quit acting when she relocated to the United Kingdom after her marriage to Nigerian poet and novelist, Godwin Okri.

The marriage went awry in 2018 when the now divorced mother of three called her hus­band out on Facebook for re­fusing to grant her a divorce, describing him as a ‘psychot­ic beast’ with a never-ending drama.