Bad puns aside, it is a regular discussion of modern parenting: whether giving your offspring a quick slap on the hand/leg/bottom should be allowable. For this parent, it has been tried and tested ...

The arrest of a Perth mother slapping her young son for naughty behaviour at a WA shopping centre has reignited the confronting smacking debate. Raising the issue of smacking among a group of parents ...

Spanking a child leads to bad behaviors, not the better manners some parents may think a smack on the bottom will elicit, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and ...