Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saskatoon author and academic Ailsa Watkinson with her new book Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment (University ...

Tragically, since recorded history corporal punishment has been the “default” system for disciplining children. In the past century, however, evidence demonstrating its ineffectiveness has mounted to ...

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 ...

The use of spanking and corporal punishment as a form of parental discipline has declined a bit over the years but has overall remained remarkably stable, especially given the fewer and fewer ...

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 ...

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 – ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Senate Committee on Education advanced several bills Thursday, including one prohibiting schools from disciplining students with physical force unless the parents give written ...

The painful memory still lingers with Ailsa Watkinson. “As a kid in school, we all got the strap,” she said in an interview at her home in Saskatoon. “I got the strap once quite brutally in Grade 9 … ...