So I applaud the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice for their recent action to address harmful school discipline policies that push so many thousands of the most vulnerable children out of school each year and into the juvenile justice and adult prison pipeline.
The legal sanctioning of parents' use of physical punishment can make it very difficult for professionals to promote other, more effective and less harmful, forms of discipline.
Continued ambiguity about the scope of mental health nursing is harmful to the discipline's identity and to patients' interests.
This is why we not only support legal reform to remove the defence of reasonable chastisement, but also advocate the need for extensively available support for parents, including advice on less harmful, positive forms of discipline.
Existing studies suggest that exposing a child to violent discipline has harmful consequences for the victim as well as the society in which he or she lives.
They show that even mild forms of physical discipline are harmful to children, hindering their cognitive capacity and increasing the proclivity for future violent acts.
Child Disciplinary Practices at Home (pdf) Published: March 2011 Existing studies suggest that exposing a child to violent discipline has harmful consequences for the victim as well as the society in which he or she lives.
"The department itself needs to be clear that racial discrimination in discipline is very harmful not only to African American employees but to everybody," Ms. Clark said.
History proved that it is a simplistic approach to consider all Western scholars and works as "bourgeois" without academic evidence, and this is harmful to the development of the discipline.
Smacking and other violent forms of discipline are likely to be harmful to the long-term development of children, a study into the effects of physical punishment has claimed.
