In many developed nations, the corporal punishment of children—that is, spanking, whipping, caning and so on—is illegal. America, where it’s even legal to spank a child at school in some states, has ...

Words matter when it comes to how people perceive parents’ actions when they discipline their kids, a new study shows. When researchers at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, asked adults – 481 ...

Spanking therapy uses spanking as a form of release. People may choose to take part in spanking therapy to release stress and responsibility, explore power roles, or work through negative emotions or ...

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 ...

The indictment of NFL star Adrian Peterson on child abuse charges has led to a robust debate about whether hitting, spanking or any other form of corporal punishment is justified and effective in ...

Most children will have been spanked by adolescence, research says. — -- The pending child abuse case against Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson has brought spanking, a common form of child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spanking in the U.S. generally ends around age 12, when children become big enough to resist or fight back. Sandro Di Carlo ...

The good news about spanking is that parents today are less likely to do it to their children than parents in the past. The bad news is that parents today still spank their kids—a lot. “Some estimates ...

Millennials and Gen X parents appear to be spanking their kids less than previous generations, according to a research letter published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics. “This article is ...

Most Americans still strongly support the idea of spanking kids, but a new study says spanking doesn’t work and can make kids aggressive later on. While kids may not immediately defy their parents ...