Leading health experts have urged parliamentarians to give children the “fundamental right to safety and protection” by backing a smacking ban. Experts from a number of medical specialties, including ...

A whole host of celebrities including Sir Michael Caine, Natalie Dormer and Alan Shearer are throwing their weight behind a campaign to finally ban smacking children in England. In Wales, Scotland and ...

France's parliament is expected to adopt a largely symbolic ban Tuesday on parents smacking their children, a practice which though condemned by the UN still enjoys widespread support in the country.

Kristy Crampton was arrested and charged with felony child abuse after reportedly "smacking" a child on a flight departing Sanford-Orlando International Airport in Sanford, Fla. According to the ...

"Any form of abuse against a child is completely unacceptable," Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a press release Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of ...

A Philadelphia day care worker was fired after surveillance video surfaced Friday showing her smacking and pushing a child. The Director of Olney Academy confirmed to NBC10 that the worker was ...

Scottish lawmakers voted Thursday to ban parents and carers from smacking children. Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament voted by 84 to 29 to introduce a law that will make it a criminal offence for ...

The child reported called Kristy Crampton "fat" and referred to her as "Miss Piggy" before she allegedly began to hit him "The woman was not correcting the child; she was abusing him,” a witness to ...