Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children who have had bad experiences of being smacked are more likely to have poor mental health and behavioural problems as they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michelle Obama has revealed that she previously smacked her two daughters. (WireImage) (Julia Beverly via Getty Images) Former ...

Is it ever OK smack your own children? Does physical punishment ever have a place in parenting? This is a divisive, long-running debate that reared its head again this week, with a definitive report ...

Scottish lawmakers voted Thursday to ban parents and carers from smacking children. Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament voted by 84 to 29 to introduce a law that will make it a criminal offence for ...

France's parliament is expected to adopt a largely symbolic ban Tuesday on parents smacking their children, a practice which though condemned by the UN still enjoys widespread support in the country.

Madam, - The recent moves in Britain towards a ban on the smacking of children are a welcome development. The failure of our own State to move to outlaw this barbaric practice is disappointing. Yet it ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?" That's the question a New Zealand referendum on anti-smacking laws is asking ...

Leading health experts have urged parliamentarians to give children the “fundamental right to safety and protection” by backing a smacking ban. Experts from a number of medical specialties, including ...

Campaigners have been left disappointed after the government revealed that it did not have any plans to ban the smacking of children as a physical punishment in England. A new Bill about the ...

Wellington - Is it okay for parents to hit their children when they are naughty? That question looms as an issue in the campaign leading up to New Zealand's election on September 17, as a Christian ...