Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children who have had bad experiences of being smacked are more likely to have poor mental health and behavioural problems as they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michelle Obama has revealed that she previously smacked her two daughters. (WireImage) (Julia Beverly via Getty Images) Former ...

Is it ever OK smack your own children? Does physical punishment ever have a place in parenting? This is a divisive, long-running debate that reared its head again this week, with a definitive report ...

France's parliament is expected to adopt a largely symbolic ban Tuesday on parents smacking their children, a practice which though condemned by the UN still enjoys widespread support in the country.

A mother-of-two says she is "baffled" that smacking a child was ever legal in Wales, nearly three years on from a ban being introduced. Mari Ellis Dunning, 32, said she sought "to meet my kids with ...

Don't believe us? Here's what Science has to say... Smacking children as a means of discipline (read: corporal punishment) is a controversial topic of conversation whether you have children or not.

Scottish lawmakers voted Thursday to ban parents and carers from smacking children. Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament voted by 84 to 29 to introduce a law that will make it a criminal offence for ...

Children’s doctors in Northern Ireland and England are calling for equal protection for children and young people against physical assault, such as smacking, hitting, and slapping. The Royal College ...

A former worker at a Fairborn daycare who reportedly pulled a young child by the ankle and smacked the child’s head was sentenced to nearly a year of incarceration during a hearing Thursday. Makala ...

NSW legislation banning parents from hitting their children above the neck in effect condones physical punishment, a child abuse conference will hear tomorrow. The 2001 legislation specified where a ...