NFL running back Adrian Peterson’s recent arrest for allegedly abusing his four-year-old son has once again sparked the debate over whether spanking is an appropriate form of discipline. Though some ...

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes ...

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 ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

Spanking is one of the oldest forms of punishment for children, but the practice has long been debated between parents and psychologists. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, spanking can ...

What you need to know: Common practices used on children—such as caning, pinching, kicking, slapping, yelling, verbal insults, or shaming—are often mistaken for discipline, but they are forms of ...