Child Discipline in Times of Conflict

Child discipline

EDITOR—A ban of a medical intervention would never be supported on the basis of such meagre evidence as used by Waterston to support a ban of the parental intervention of smacking.1 “Significant adverse effects” and a failure to “learn the desired behaviour” were based on a literature review that is unpublished2 and that includes studies that included severe types of corporal punishment such as...

International variations in harsh child discipline.

BACKGROUND Although the history of recognition of child abuse in Europe and North America extends over 40 years, recognition and data are lacking in other parts of the world. Cultural differences in child-rearing complicate cross-cultural studies of abuse. OBJECTIVE To ascertain rates of harsh and less-harsh parenting behavior in population-based samples. METHODS We used parallel surveys of...

Child Soldiers in Armed Conflict

Child Life in past Times

ferable struggle to live and the necessity of preserving a healthy verile stock probably stated their attitude to their weaker brethren. Many peoples including the Spartans, elts and Romans, for instance, required all newly born infants to submit to searching ?Crutiny to exclude evidence of poor development and physical defect. Some even lri:iposed rigorous tests of fitness, as for example the ...

Discipline by Parents and Child Psychopathology Emily

There is wide consensus that parental discipline can have important affects on the psychological well-being of children, but there is little consensus on what constitutes discipline. For many parents, 'discipline' is a euphemism for spanking and other legal and culturally approved tonns of corporal punishment. At the other extreme, for many professionals, 'discipline' is anything done to raise ...