The latest research on corporal punishment of children suggests that professional organisations are increasingly of the view that all physical punishment of children should be stopped.
The paper published in March 2017 and featured on the Marriage And Family Review, is a critique of an earlier piece of research entitled “Children and Parents Deserve Better Parental Discipline Research: Critiquing the Evidence for Exclusively “Positive” Parenting. The paper attacks the earlier publication for being flawed, and whilst the two papers represent an academic struggle between researchers they both make for interesting reading.
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A very big thank you to Professor Joan Durrant for sharing this research with us.
For anyone interested in ending corporal punishment of children, The Global Partnership To End Violence Against Children offers information and ways to get involved. Follow them on Twitter at @GPToEndViolence, hash tag #EndViolence.
Jeez, I thought Dr Murray Straus’s work had long since cleared this up against corporal punishment. It’d be interesting to see who funded the pro-CP research and who did it.
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All physical punishment of children should be banned for good. it serves no purpose other than to harm.
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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Unfortunately this would open the door even further for social workers to snatch children for a smack on the bum or a cuff tround the ear;I am not saying that punishing children in that way could ever be a good thing but it certainly does not justify self righteous social workers snatching children for judges to rubberstamp their adoption by strangers.
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