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 ...

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against school children does not violate the federal Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After years of partnering together to lead the charge on this issue, we’re celebrating a big win for child advocates in Kentucky – ...

“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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Friday called on schools to stop using corporal punishment, citing the practice’s long-term effect on children’s physical and mental health, particularly ...

What are the results of not teaching children right and wrong with consequences? Just to name a few: lack of respect, violence, murders, shootings, theft, destruction of property (both public and ...

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A jury on Thursday acquitted Marty Small Sr. of all four crimes he was charged with, including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his teenage daughter. By Tracey Tully Mehdi Yarrahi, a ...

“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 ...

Florida has changed how corporal punishment can be used in its public schools, requiring parents to give approval before the practice is administered. House Bill 1255, passed this spring, mandates ...

Corporal punishment including smacking has been used as an excuse for "awful abuse" and should be outlawed, a royal commissioner says. South Australia's Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and ...