HANDS OFF - Our View: Here's why spanking students is sure to backfire. Editorial - Fayetteville Observer, December 16, 2013 END IT - Our View: Hitting kids doesn't work Editorial - Fayetteville Observer, October 8, 2013 Editorial: Positive parenting, not physical punishment, By John Fletcher, MB BChir MPH, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 4, 2012 Editorial: Schools should get past paddling, Beaumont Enterprise, July 11, 2012 In our view: Stop 'paddling' in schools, The Herald, Everett, Washington, May 9, 2012 Editorial: End spanking in public schools, USA Today, May 8, 2012 OUR VIEW: End paddling in schools, By Enterprise editorial staff, Beaumont Enterprise, May 8, 2012 Editorial: Hitting - Once and for all, end the paddling controversy, By Fayobserver.com, March 23, 2012 Editorial: We should not encourage parents to turn to violence, By Jackson Citizen Patriot staff, March 12, 2012 Editorial: The trouble with spanking, Vancouver Sun, February 10, 2012 Editorial: Judge who beat teen should know better, Chicago Sun-Times, November 7, 2011 Our View: Educate parents about value of nonviolent discipline, Editorial The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Massachusetts, October 9, 2011 No spanking over parents' wishes, By Editorial Board, statesman.com, Texas, May 13, 2011 EDITORIAL — Corporal Punishment Must Stop... for all our sakes, By Sir Frank Peters, New Age, Bangladesh, May 6, 2011 EDITORIAL — Corporal punishment is unethical, By Shafiqul Alam, The Financial Express, Bangladesh, May 4, 2011 EDITORIAL: Spare the rod, please, By Walter Rubel, wrubel@lcsun-news.com, Sun-News, April 3, 2011 Would Jesus beat a kid?, Keith Magill, Executive Editor, DailyComet.com, March 26, 2011 Time to end corporal punishment, By John M. Crisp, Scripps Howard News Service, March 21, 2011 Court ruling isn't a green light for parents to whack kids, By Star-Ledger Editorial Board, Star-Ledger, February 3, 2011 Ban on physical punishment in schools - Counselling and training of teachers may be necessary, The Daily Star, Bangladesh, August 11, 2010 Shame on Arkansas, Guest Editorial By Jordan Riak, Arkansas Times, April 3, 2008 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 Texas must stop school spanking, EDITORIAL, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, February 10, 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