Spanking is a harmful form of discipline and can increase poor behavior, according to a group of pediatricians. The American Academy of Pediatrics has opened up on its resistance to corporal ...

Fewer kids are spanked today than in 1975, but nearly 80 percent of preschoolers are still spanked in the United States. And corporal punishment remains common around the world even though two dozen ...

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes ...

A recent New York court ruling that called spanking a “reasonable use of force” has stirred debate among parents over the still widely used form of household discipline. It also brought forth ...

HEPHZIBAH, GA (CNN) – A charter school in Georgia is bringing back an old-fashioned form of discipline and that has many parents up in arms. “In this school we take discipline very seriously,” said ...