Time to put smacking on the naughty step

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3149, 2017, pág. 25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Smacking children was outlawed in Scotland this week. Remarkably, parents in the rest of the UK can still use physical violence to punish or discipline their children, provided it can be considered "reasonable punishment", a term not properly defined in law. Smacking is allowed in the majority of other nations. Around the world, smacking is common. A 2014 report by UNICEF found that 80 per cent of the world's children are subject to some form of violent punishment at home. Here, Hamzelou talks about the risk of smacking children.