"CHILD health experts in Australia have called for the smacking of kids and other physical punishments to be completely outlawed.
"The medicos from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) want legal defences for the use of such discipline to be scrapped....
“Research is increasingly showing that physical punishment may be harmful and children who receive physical punishment are at increased risk for a range of adverse outcomes both in childhood and as adults,” Associate Professor Moloney said....
"The RACP’s Paediatrics & Child Health Division is also launching a brochure, put together by doctors and parents, on how to manage a child’s behaviour without smacking.”
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