Ideas about corporal punishment become part of a culture that is passed from one generation to the next.
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Although millions of US parents approve, decades of research shows that spanking is harmful.
The Taliban are increasing religious education and removing lessons about the arts, culture and human rights – moves that will shape the future for millions of Afghan students
A new education law in South Africa affecting how schools are governed as well as language policies has sparked controversy.
New research shows one in four Australians think physical punishment is necessary to properly raise children. And one in two parents (across all age groups) reported smacking their children.
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?
The good news is there are evidence-based strategies that can help you discipline your child without using violence.
Smacking children is illegal in Wales and Scotland.
Too often, corporal punishment breaks young people and brutalises them.
Investment in preventing violence against children is a long-term strategy for a sustainable future, and it requires urgent action.
Decisions on whether to allow corporal punishment in school have been largely local.
There is now a strong body of evidence showing a link between corporal punishment as a child and later involvement in family violence, either as a victim or perpetrator.
Zimbabwe’s Education Amendment Act of 2020 is a step in the right direction, but more still needs to be done.
The school playground is not just a place to have fun. It’s an important space to claim power and this is often done through violence.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is empowering children around the world by encouraging them to see themselves as important and valuable members of society.
While more and more countries have moved to ban corporal punishment in schools, certain types of nations have been slower than others to outlaw the practice. A recent analysis seeks to explain why.
Children whose families benefit from social grants and family support interventions enjoy better health, nutrition and schooling.
Until Canadians challenge the normalization of violence against children, we will continue to support, or at least tacitly condone, something that by all accounts is harmful.
A groundbreaking High Court ruling outlawing the spanking of children in South Africa has outraged some Christian bodies that claim parents are entitled to hit their children in a “godly way”.
Recent events in Indonesia should dispel any doubt about the rising influence conservative Sunni Islamist sentiment is having on the country’s laws.
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Extraordinary Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Professor of Social Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Policy Officer, Young Lives Study, University of Oxford
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times., Tufts University
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