Anti-smacking bill passes by landslide with only three MPs voting no, The New Zealand Herald, May 3, 2007 Democracy will survive the smacks, The New Zealand Herald, April 2, 2007 Ban the paddle: N.C. lawmakers should prohibit corporal punishment, The Charlotte Observer, March 23, 2007 Stop Spanking, Winston-Salem Journal, March 21, 2007 Paddle Policy: A push to ban corporal punishment in public schools deserves high marks. It's time the state stopped spanking students, News & Observer (North Carolina), March 19, 2007 Stop paddling students; Lawmakers should ban corporal punishment statewide, The Charlotte Observer, January 4, 2007 Taiwan bans corporal punishment in schools; moves toward being an advanced, nurturing society , Taiwan Journal, December 22, 2006 Schools have alternatives to corporal punishment, Muskogee Phoenix, November 17, 2006 A reevaluation of corporal punishment, [Korea] The Hankyoreh, August 21, 2006 State-sanctioned abuse, St. Petersburg Times, April 9, 2006 Ban the corporal punishment of children , The Manila Times, March 31, 2006 Sparing the rod, Commercial Appeal, September 1, 2005 Union school board flunks, Charlotte Observer, March 12, 2005 Problems with paddling -- Corporal punishment is applied inconsistently, should end, The Charlotte Observer, February 21, 2005 Stop Paddling Students The Charlotte Observer, February 10, 2005 Editorial: Another chance to ban paddles The Commercial Appeal (Tennessee), October 10, 2004 It is time to stop putting children second in the UK and USA, The Lancet, July 17, 2004 Expel the paddles from public schools, Commercial Appeal (Tennessee), June 27, 2004 Sparing the Rod, Memphis Flyer (Tennessee), June 26, 2004 No Spanking Day, Daily News (Sri Lanka), April 30, 2004 Abolish: There is no need for corporal punishment in the public schools, Pacific Daily News (Guam), November 2, 2003 Culture of abuse, The Press, Canterbury, New Zealand, 10 October 2003 Spare the rod, The Statesman (Kolkata, India), July 3, 2003 School system should stop paddling right now, The Jackson Sun, June 1, 2003 End this abuse. Smacking children is always wrong, The Guardian (U.K.), May 3, 2003 The abuse of children is not negotiable, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), March 17, 2003 Put up the paddle, Huntsville Times (Ala.), March 11, 2003 States too slow to spare the child, part with the rod, USA Today, August 22, 2002 Bush wrong on corporal punishment, Chattanooga Times - Free Press, May 22, 2001 Spare the rod--Washington shouldn't encourage corporal punishment, (Pittsburgh) Post-Gazette, May 21, 2001 Breaking the Hickory Stick, The New York Times, May 7, 2001 A lesson learned: Spare the rod, (Thailand) Bangkok Post, September 15, 2000 Maine: Corporal punishment defined, Kennebec Journal / Waterville Morning Sentinel, March 1, 2000 Law shouldn't absolve adults who hit kids, The Toronto Star, December 15, 1997 Corporal Stupidity, San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 1996 End legal child abuse; stop school paddlings, USA Today, July 18, 1994 Sparing the Child, The New York Times, March 3, 1987 It's a bad lesson to teach our children, Speaking in support of H.B. 1617, California corporal punishment ban, Caroline Wean, Vice President and General Manager of KPIX-TV, 1985 (Allow download time for audio.) Have We Lost the Children?, The Weekly Journal, Orleans County, Vermont June 27, 1984 Children at School, The New York Times, January 22, 1871

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