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The school playground is not just a place to have fun. It's an important space to claim power and this is often done through violence.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is empowering children around the world by encouraging them to see themselves as important and valuable members of society.
While more and more countries have moved to ban corporal punishment in schools, certain types of nations have been slower than others to outlaw the practice. A recent analysis seeks to explain why.
Children whose families benefit from social grants and family support interventions enjoy better health, nutrition and schooling.
Until Canadians challenge the normalization of violence against children, we will continue to support, or at least tacitly condone, something that by all accounts is harmful.
A groundbreaking High Court ruling outlawing the spanking of children in South Africa has outraged some Christian bodies that claim parents are entitled to hit their children in a "godly way".
Recent events in Indonesia should dispel any doubt about the rising influence conservative Sunni Islamist sentiment is having on the country’s laws.
New research highlights the dangers of being too supportive when family relations are strained.
Police in schools are being asked to deal with a range of issues, such as being a mental health counselor for a traumatized child. It is unfair to the police and can be harmful for children.
Senator Ted Cruz recently stated that he spanks his five-year-old daughter for lying. Spanking kids can cause tremendous damage to kids' mental health – even if it is an occasional light rap.
Hitting young children affects their grades as they grow up.
An estimated 838 students per day receive corporal punishment across schools in 19 American states. Why does the practice continue?
A ban on corporal punishment has not stopped the practice in Uganda's schools. An initiative in the East African country may hold the solutions - and could be used in other countries, too.
Showing your children affection and teaching them to see the consequences of their actions is more likely to promote good behaviour than smacking.
Sentencing policy is a mixed bag of approaches: punishment, deterrence, protection and rehabilitation. The system will remain costly and ineffective until punitive instincts give way to a more rational approach.
Saudi Arabia has upheld a blogger's flogging sentence, in defiance of international pressure. How long will this go on?
It has been announced that, for medical reasons, the Saudi Arabian authorities have decided to postpone the ongoing punishment of Raif Badawi. The 31-year-old blogger was supposed to have received a second…
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is today launching a call for law reform regarding the use of physical punishment to discipline children. Noting the harms of smacking children, it’s…
In last night’s ABC program, The Slap, an impulsive slap changed everything. A man struck someone else’s child at a barbecue provoking a legal challenge. In real life, that would be an assault, though…
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer Social Work, Monash University
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Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor, Paediatrics, Griffith University
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Epidemiologist, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Deakin University
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Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
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Ronald W. Pies es Amigo de The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times., Tufts University
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Dr of Social Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Lecturer Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor of School of Special Education, School Psychology, & Early Childhood Studies, University of Helsinki
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Policy Officer, Young Lives Study, University of Oxford
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
