Children who have had bad experiences of being smacked are more likely to have poor mental health and behavioural problems as they get older, research shows. (Getty Images) Leading children's doctors ...

Michelle Obama has revealed that she previously smacked her two daughters. (WireImage) Former First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed she stopped spanking her daughters because she felt "embarrassed." ...

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 ...

SCOTLAND (CBS) -- A new study shows that kids can become depressed and violent later in life if they endured physical punishments growing up. Researchers have found a connection between smacking ...

A whole host of celebrities including Sir Michael Caine, Natalie Dormer and Alan Shearer are throwing their weight behind a campaign to finally ban smacking children in England. In Wales, Scotland and ...

Europe's leading human rights organisation has criticised France for failing to ban parents from smacking their children, reigniting a controversial debate. The Council of Europe said that the country ...

CARDIFF, Wales (TND) - Parents smacking, hitting, shaking or slapping their children in Wales is now against the law, with citizens instructed to report parents or caregivers to social services if ...

There are growing calls for a smacking ban in England as a new poll shows the overwhelming majority think the punishment is ‘unacceptable’. Parents are still allowed to use ‘reasonable punishment’ ...

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 ...

Sue works for the Gold Coast Hospital. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is today launching a call for law reform regarding the use of physical punishment to discipline children.

Smacking children was outlawed in Scotland this week. Remarkably, parents in the rest of the UK can still use physical violence to punish or discipline their children, provided it can be considered ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. John Duns Scotus is considered one of the most important Western philosophers of the High Middle Age. He ...