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Corporal Punishment is a Reality Among Children Worldwide: Study
Spanking has declined in the U.S. since 1975 but nearly 80 percent of preschool children are still disciplined in this fashion.
Corporal punishment of children is also large on the world level despite bans on corporal punishment that have been adopted in 24 countries since 1979.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center conducted the study.
"The findings are stark. Harsh treatment of children was epidemic in all communities. Our data support the conclusions that maltreatment occurs in all nations," Desmond Runyan, professor of social medicine at UNC and lead author of a study that conducted surveys in Egypt, India, Chile, the Philippines, Brazil and the U.S. to track international variations in corporal punishment said.
Some findings of his study said that rates of harsh physical discipline revealed by the surveys were dramatically higher in all communities than published rates of official physical abuse in any country.
Mothers with fewer years of education more commonly used physical punishment. Rates of corporal punishment vary widely among communities within the same country. For example, both the highest and lowest rates of hitting a child on the buttocks with an object were found in different communities in India.
Harsh punishment of children by parents is not less common in countries other than the U.S. It may be more common, especially in low and middle income countries.
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