A Texas school district changes its corporal-punishment policy — by expanding rather than limiting teachers’ rights to …
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A Girl is Punished to Death in Alabama: Does Running Count as Corporal Punishment?
Savannah Hardin, 9, dies after being made to run for three hours for lying about eating a candy bar. With her grandmother and stepmother charged with murder, will parents consider anew how to punish children?
Why Spanking Doesn’t Work
A new analysis concludes that spanking fails to alter kids’ behavior in the long term. What it does instead is amp up their aggression.
The Case of the Texas Judge: When Does Spanking Cross the Line to Abuse?
Much of the nation has spent seven minutes watching slack-jawed as a Texas judge beat his teenage daughter with a belt in a YouTube video that’s burning up the blogosphere. The video, made in 2004, was recorded with a hidden …
The Healthland Podcast: Dictators, Corporal Punishment and Supermoms
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The First Real-Time Study of Parents Spanking Their Kids
It’s not P.C. to admit you spank your child. But nearly 40 moms have gone a step further, recording themselves hitting and slapping their kids as part of a new study on how parents and children interact.