In some countries, such discipline could land a parent in jail. Around the world, close to 300 million children aged 2 to 4 receive some type of physical discipline from their parents or caregivers on ...

Divna Haslam has received funding from a variety of sources including the Australian Government. She is an author of the Triple P Program and receives royalties. She is a board member of the QLD Child ...

Physical punishment is ineffective and predicts increases in behavior problems. A conclusive narrative review has found physical punishment of children is not effective in preventing child behavior ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spanking in the U.S. generally ends around age 12, when children become big enough to resist or fight back. Sandro Di Carlo ...

Physical punishment does not appear to improve a child's positive behavior or social competence over time, according to a review of 69 studies from the US, Canada, China, Colombia, Greece, Japan, ...

(Reuters Health) - - Spanking and hitting children to discipline them has become much less common in recent decades as more parents choose non-physical approaches like “time-outs” instead, a U.S.

The majority of adults in England believe it is wrong for parents or carers to physically discipline their child, a study has revealed. More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of nearly 3,000 adults polled ...

For generations, the traditional “tough love” approach — marked by strict discipline and, often, corporal punishment/spanking ...

Most parents know the proverb, "spare the rod, spoil the child." But in recent years, many have debated whether to practice physical discipline, such as spanking or smacking, in their own homes. To ...

_Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment”, many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have ...