Andrea Gonzalez

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  • Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
Along with the typical stress of raising kids, modern families face exacerbated pressures and new stressors. (Shutterstock)

Parents are stressed. Here’s what we can do to help them

Andrea Gonzalez, McMaster University

Parents are dealing with the traditional stresses of raising children, as well as new challenges like technology use. Governments, workplaces, friends and family can all help parents cope with stress.
Strategies that may help reduce support for corporal punishment — as well as reduce its use and intentions to use it — include individual and group-based programs to develop positive parenting skills. (Shutterstock)

Time to abolish the Canadian law that allows adults to spank and hit children

Tracie O. Afifi, University of Manitoba and Andrea Gonzalez, McMaster University

Extensive evidence shows the harms of spanking, and 65 other countries or states worldwide have already banned it. Why has Canada not done the same by repealing Section 43 of the Criminal Code?

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