Sentences with phrase «on corporal punishment»

The government's ban on corporal punishment in 1986 was largely influenced by the actions of two Scottish mothers.

The state Senate in Virginia has narrowly approved a prohibition on corporal punishment in public schools, making it the first southern state to institute such a ban.

What is the relationship between a theologian's position on corporal punishment and a theologian's doctrine of the atonement?

I've been exercising these tools now for some twenty years as I have studied and written exhaustively about doctrinal issues, including publishing a book on corporal punishment (spanking) in the Bible in the hope of shedding new light on that issue.»

On the contrary, when Larzelere conducted a meta analysis of 26 published studies on corporal punishment, he and his colleague Brett Kuhn concluded that even mild physical punishment — if used as the primary method of discipline — was linked with poorer child outcomes (Larzelere and Kuhn 2005).

With spanking a public health concern, this approach offers a simple way to reach a large audience to change attitudes and reduce parents» reliance on corporal punishment, said Holden, who was recently elected president of Dallas» oldest child abuse prevention agency, Family Compass.

Bridge enforces a strict ban on corporal punishment removing fear from the classroom and creating a strong relationship between teachers and pupils.

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Although she is in her 80s, Diana still remains very active in the field of parenting, heading the Family Socialization Project at IHD, sitting on the editorial board for the international journal Parenting: Science and Practice, and acting as a consultant for the Task Force on Corporal Punishment for the American Psychological Association.

Despite these justifications for spanking, research on corporal punishment is clear and negative.

He explained that the ministry had also written to all public schools informing their managements of the ban on corporal punishment.