C orporal punishment is increasingly regarded as an act of violence against children. Corporal punishment includes any use of physical punishment against a child in response to misbehaviour. This most commonly includes spanking, smacking and slapping, but also includes the use of an object such as a rod or stick, hair pulling and ear twisting. A growing body of research has focused on disciplin...

OBJECTIVE One justification for a statutory ban on physical punishment is that passage of such legislation changes public attitudes towards the use of this form of parental discipline. The experience in Sweden is often cited as an example of legislation which changed public opinion. The aim of this brief article is to review the public opinion findings in Sweden in order to evaluate in greater ...

This study tesled Ihe h.vpothesis Ihat the use (~lC011)oralpunishment (ep), such as slapping a child \ hand or ".\pankiJz/5," is a5'socialed lu;th reslricted development (!! cognitive abi!i/.1'. Cognitive abili/.v was measured al the start of the sluc"1' and 4 yean, !ater for 806 children alW 2-4 and 704 children age 5-9 in Ihe Nationa! Lonp,i~ ttic/ina! Study of Youth. The ana~vses controlled ...

Parental use of corporal punishment has been a contentious child-rearing topic for thousands of years. E. T. Gershoff's (2002) meta-analyses undoubtedly will rekindle the debate over whether parents should spank their children. The quality of the existing data is discussed as well as several surprising findings from the meta-analyses. The effects of corporal punishment are then considered from ...

There is considerable evidence that corporal pwtishment is associated with the subsequent oggression of children, and there is recent evidence thnt later in life this aggression includes ph]sical ossaults on spouses. Yet there hns been no direct test of either modeling of cultural norms or other processes rhat could account for the link behseen corporal punishment and partner violence. Using da...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has criticised Australia (and many other countries) in State Reports released in 1997, 2005 and, most recently, 2011, for not introducing a ban on corporal punishment by parents of their children in line with Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘CROC’). In light of this criticism, and the clear recommendation to ban parental co...

The purpose of this study was to elaborate the situation of corporal punishment which is being practiced in Nepalese schools going against new policies that promote the non-violence teaching. It was based on original qualitative study of one private school of Kathmandu (the capital city of Nepal) having more than 2000 students and 100 teachers. Results from FGD, observation of the classroom pra...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to reveal the prevalence and determinants of corporal punishment in preparatory (middle) and secondary (high) schools in Alexandria. METHODS A cross sectional survey targeting preparatory and secondary school students enrolled in main stream public schools was conducted. The multistage random sample technique was adopted to select a priori estimated sample ...

The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is committed to promoting quality health care for children, including the provision of a safe and healthy environment in which children can grow and develop. Parents must be educated about harmful effects of corporal punishment (CP) and effective alternative forms of discipline for home and school. NAPNAP believes that it is nec...