In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against schoolchildren does not violate the Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that constitutional ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

State Rep. Jim Olsen argued against a bill that would prohibit school employees from using corporal punishment on children with disabilities, citing Proverbs to argue, "The rod and reproof give wisdom ...

A Rochester man will make his first appearance today in Olmsted County District Court, where he's been charged with malicious punishment of a child, a gross misdemeanor, and one count of misdemeanor ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Even as Missouri lawmakers have been busily working to ensure that public school children get whitewashed versions of American ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law ...

New University of Virginia research is pinpointing when young children begin recognizing what they believe to be unfair treatment in the classroom. Findings from associate professor Amrisha Vaish's ...

In much of the world, we have outlawed physical violence against adults, including the physical punishment of women, prisoners and military recruits. It is also illegal in many places to hit a dog. In ...