Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment share their thoughts about the evolving attitudes and approaches to childhood discipline ...

Section 43 excuses those who use physical force on children for the purpose of correction, making children the only group of ...

It was spring when Joshua Watson, a sixth-grader at Alvarado Intermediate School in Alvarado, Texas, had an unsettling decision to make -- whether to accept a five-day in-school suspension or be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

“Leave a place better than you found it.” I remember over and over hearing this clichéd, but utilitarian advice as a young child from adults and role models I admired. While fulfilling this precept ...

“Anyone who has had any experience of children, knows that the only way to deal with a refractory girl (no matter how old she is) is by a sound spanking. I have seen my own sisters beaten by every ...

While Corporal punishment has been banned in most states in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, a number still allow it in schools, predominantly those in the Southeast. In some states, while inflicting ...

After years of partnering together to lead the charge on this issue, we’re celebrating a big win for child advocates in Kentucky – the banning of corporal punishment in every school district in the ...