The Uses and Abuses of Corporal Punishment
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Parents who strike their children, teachers wielding a stick, prison warders who want to use the birch and thugs beating up informers.
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A Survey of Some Behavioral Disorders Due to Parental Corporal Punishment in School Age Children
Qasemi F1, Valizadeh F1, Toulabi T2, Saki M3 1. Instructor, Department of Children, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 2. Instructor, Department of Internal Surgery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 3. Instructor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences Abstr...
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