Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment of Children

Predictors of adult attitudes toward corporal punishment of children.

This study identifies predictors of favorable attitudes toward spanking. Analyses were performed with survey data collected from a representative sample of 1,000 adults from Quebec, Canada. According to this survey, a majority of respondents endorsed spanking, despite their recognition of potential harm associated with corporal punishment (CP) of children. The prediction model of attitudes towa...

Corporal Punishment of Children in Theoretical Perspective

Corporal punishment of children: changing the culture.

The Ban on Corporal Punishment of Children

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has criticised Australia (and many other countries) in State Reports released in 1997, 2005 and, most recently, 2011, for not introducing a ban on corporal punishment by parents of their children in line with Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘CROC’). In light of this criticism, and the clear recommendation to ban parental co...

The relationship between attitudes toward corporal punishment and the perception and reporting of child maltreatment.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effect of workers' attitudes toward corporal punishment on the workers' perception and reporting of child maltreatment. Three hundred twenty-five (325) potential entry level workers participated in this study. METHOD Responding to vignettes in multi-item scales, study participants 1) rated their approval of parental discipline involving corporal punishment; 2...