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Article: Spare the rod, say some; Corporal punishment.(The decline of spanking)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2008
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In rich countries at least, parents and teachers are steadily losing the right to discipline children by force
"AS PART of their daily lives, children across Europe and the world continue to be spanked, slapped, hit, smacked, shaken, kicked, pinched, punched, caned, flogged, belted, beaten and battered in the name of discipline, mainly by adults whom they depend on." But in some places, it happens less than before, and there is a chance to stop it altogether.
That is how the Council of Europe, a 47-country body that is supposed to promote civil liberties from Dublin to Vladivostok, explains its campaign to abolish physical punishment--to be launched in ...