Global & Disaster Medicine

How does a national prohibition on corporal punishment affect violence in kids?

October 27th, 2018

BMJ

Elgar FJ, Donnelly PD, Michaelson V, et al

Corporal punishment bans and physical fighting in adolescents: an ecological study of 88 countries
BMJ Open 2018;8:e021616. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-02161

 

“…..Country prohibition of corporal punishment is associated with less youth violence. Whether bans precipitated changes in child discipline or reflected a social milieu that inhibits youth violence remains unclear due to the study design and data limitations. However, these results support the hypothesis that societies that prohibit the use of corporal punishment are less violent for youth to grow up in than societies that have not.….”

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