corporal punishment

Many parents, most of whom by now also had biological children, resorted to corporal punishment to enforce discipline.

In later years, Buhari attributed his disciplinarian bent to spending his formative years at boarding school, where corporal punishment was the norm, and in the military.

Some call for a return to the days of corporal punishment in schools, when unruly children were disciplined by "the tawse".

Things took a dark turn next, however, with Hawk getting arrested in Southern California in late summer 2020 on domestic violence allegations of inflicting corporal punishment on a spouse or cohabitant in Santa Ana.

In her first stint on the school board, from 1983 to 1991, she worked to end corporal punishment and spearheaded the first campus health clinics, which included contraceptive services.