Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every day, approximately 600 students across the U.S. are physically punished at school — hit with wooden paddles or struck by ...

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 – ...

As a trained mental health practitioner and a family life educator, I was disturbed when former Fox TV host Tucker Carlson recently shared a fantasized story about "Daddy" Donald Trump coming home to ...

Corporal punishment is associated with unintended negative consequences. These include higher rates of mental health problems, more negative parent-child relationships, lower cognitive ability, lower ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

Parenting is a journey filled with choices, and one of the most contentious decisions that Black parents face is whether to use corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure for their children. While ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — This school year, Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month ...

On August 18, 2003, 10-year-old Tim L. started the fifth grade at his public elementary school in rural east Texas. On the fourth day of school, Tim refused to run in gym class because he did not have ...

The new RTÉ documentary "Leathered: Violence in Irish Schools" shines new light on the use of Corporal Punishment in Irish schools and the impact that the culture of violence it provoked continues to ...