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 ...

CORONADO, Calif. — A woman was arrested in Coronado for public child abuse and battery after several citizens witnessed the crime. Coronado Police Department received reports of a 41-year-old woman ...

The child reported called Kristy Crampton "fat" and referred to her as "Miss Piggy" before she allegedly began to hit him "The woman was not correcting the child; she was abusing him,” a witness to ...

Leading child doctors have joined calls for a complete ban on smacking children in England, saying there is no evidence it ...

Children’s doctors in Northern Ireland and England are calling for equal protection for children and young people against physical assault, such as smacking, hitting, and slapping. The Royal College ...

CHARLOTTE — Disturbing video footage shows what appears to be a teacher using a child’s hand to smack another child in the face at a west Charlotte day care. The woman who shot the video told Channel ...

Belief among young adults that use of force against a child is unacceptable has grown stronger in recent years according to new polling which has prompted campaigners to make a fresh call for a change ...

The arrest of a Perth mother slapping her young son for naughty behaviour at a WA shopping centre has reignited the confronting smacking debate. It’s a busy day and you’re in a rush. Outside it’s ...

Kristy Crampton was arrested and charged with felony child abuse after reportedly "smacking" a child on a flight departing Sanford-Orlando International Airport in Sanford, Fla. According to the ...