When a 4-year-old boy returned home from his St. Paul daycare center last month with bruises on his face, his mother learned ...

Bruising on the child was still visible 5 days after the abuse.

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. Campaigners have called for England and Northern Ireland to make smacking children illegal, in-line with Scotland and Wales [PA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All four of the UK’s children’s commissioners have previously jointly called for a wholesale smacking ban (PA) The failure to ...

Smacking children as a form of punishment could result in lower school grades or lead to riskier teenage behaviour, a study has found. Researchers from the University College London (UCL) studied the ...