Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of a church-run school in Orlando was called into a fourth-grade classroom where more than a dozen children were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Young, left, a college student from Louisville and vocal opponent of corporal punishment, posed with Rep. Steven Riley, a retired educator and Republican from Glasgow, who has tried a number of ...

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 ...

ALBANY — A bill to ban corporal punishment in all schools statewide became law this week with a signature from Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law prohibits teachers, administrators, officers, employees or ...

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 ...