Corporal punishment, including spanking, is legal in 17 states. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) A common form of punishment many parents use to discipline their children is spanking. By the time a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have ...

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 ...

A Missouri school district has authorized the use of corporal punishment as a "last resort" in order to discipline students. Cassville R-IV School District, located in southwest Missouri, issued a new ...

A recent study looked into the long-standing debate surrounding the impact of spanking on child development. The study, published in the Marriage & Family Review, revealed that the punishment may not ...