Corporal Punishment
- More Harm Than Good: A Summary of Scientific Research on the Intended and Unintended Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children – The research evidence has led many leading professional organizations to call for a ban on corporal punishment in school.
- Physical punishment of children: lessons from 20 years of research – The Joint Statement on Physical Punishment of Children and Youth finds that the evidence is clear and compelling — physical punishment of children and youth plays no useful role in their upbringing and poses only risks to their development.
- The State of Research on the Effects of Physical Punishment – Long considered an effective, and even necessary, means of socialising children, physical punishment has been revealed to be a predictor of a wide range of negative developmental outcomes.