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* [http://www.stophitting.com/laws/legalReform.php List of worldwide bans on Corporal Punishment] on [[Stophitting.com]] | * [http://www.stophitting.com/laws/legalReform.php List of worldwide bans on Corporal Punishment] on [[Stophitting.com]] | ||
* [http://www.wikihow.com/Include-Spanking-in-Child-Discipline Include Spanking in Child Discipline] A [[ | * [http://www.wikihow.com/Include-Spanking-in-Child-Discipline Include Spanking in Child Discipline] A [[WikiHow]] page on child discipline | ||
* [http://www.chastisewithlove.com/ Chastise With Love (formerly called Spank With Love)] A website with information on how to correctly spank your child | * [http://www.chastisewithlove.com/ Chastise With Love (formerly called Spank With Love)] A website with information on how to correctly spank your child | ||
* [http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/2001/children/index.html Survey on public attitudes towards the physical discipline of children] by Sue Carswell (2001) | * [http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/2001/children/index.html Survey on public attitudes towards the physical discipline of children] by Sue Carswell (2001) | ||
Revision as of 18:02, 31 July 2023
Spanking of children is the practice of punishing a child (a boy or girl) by administering corporal punishment to his or her buttocks.
Legal situation
Legality of child corporal punishment in Europe (2007).
Green: domestic and school corporal punishment permitted.
Yellow: domestic corporal punishment permitted, school corporal punishment forbidden.
Red: domestic and school corporal punishment forbidden.
Green: domestic and school corporal punishment permitted.
Yellow: domestic corporal punishment permitted, school corporal punishment forbidden.
Red: domestic and school corporal punishment forbidden.
School corporal punishment was abandoned in several countries as early as the 1950s and 1960s, but up to 1979, the appropriate and nonabusive spanking of children for punishment by their parents (and other caretakers who acted in loco parentis) was legal everywhere on the planet. Sweden was the first country to ban all corporal punishment of children, including in the home. Since then, several countries have followed Sweden's example:
- Sweden (1979)
- Finland (1983)
- Norway (1987)
- Austria (1989)
- Cyprus (1994)
- Italy (1996)
- Denmark (1997)
- Latvia (1998)
- Croatia (1999)
- Israel (1999 or 2000)
- Bulgaria (2000)
- Germany (2000)
- Iceland (2003)
- Romania (2004)
- Ukraine (2004)
- Hungary (2004)
- Greece (2006)
- Netherlands (2007)
- New Zealand (2007)
- Portugal (2007)
- Uruguay (2007)
- Venezuela (2007)
- Spain (2007)
- Chile (2007)
- NSW Australia
- Moldova
Specific articles
For specific articles on the spanking of children, see:
Links
- List of worldwide bans on Corporal Punishment on Stophitting.com
- Include Spanking in Child Discipline A WikiHow page on child discipline
- Chastise With Love (formerly called Spank With Love) A website with information on how to correctly spank your child
- Survey on public attitudes towards the physical discipline of children by Sue Carswell (2001)
- Proposition de loi de Mme Edwige Antier visant à abolir les châtiments corporels infligés aux enfants (22 janvier 2010)
- A Map of the World Anti-Spanking League (world map of countries that have banned the spanking of children, in Swedish)
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