corporal punishment
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Robert Docter, an L.A. school board member in the 1970s who successfully pushed to end corporal punishment and who sacrificed his political career trying to integrate campuses through busing, has died at 97.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
As Human Rights Watch explained in a recent report, "US states overwhelmingly fail to live up to key standards" on "the issues of child marriage, corporal punishment, child labor, and juvenile justice."
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2023
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the African American community has a complicated relationship with corporal punishment of kids.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023
In Wales, Scotland and Jersey any type of corporal punishment, including smacking, hitting, slapping, and shaking is illegal.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023
Mother disapproved of all forms of corporal punishment.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
