Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of a church-run school in Orlando was called into a fourth-grade classroom where more than a dozen children were ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — With the start of the school year underway, families are navigating post-summertime rules at home and students are learning the dos and don'ts on campus. You might be surprised to ...

"The very temporary change in behavior does not outweigh the negative outcomes," Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a psychologist, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue When it comes to considering corporal punishment ...

It might seem like something from another era, yet corporal punishment is still a common form of discipline in many families.

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 ...

More than 160,000 children were disciplined using corporal punishment in public schools in the United States in the 2013-2014 school year, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of ...