Harris County Texas Sends Strong Message to People Who Hit Kids, By Stacey Patton, The Defenders Online - A Civil Rights Blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund web site, June 25, 2010
Time to Ban Physical Punishment of Students in all Schools, By Stacey Patton, The Defenders Online - A Civil Rights Blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund web site, May 21, 2010
Time to Spare the Rod in Black Communities, By Stacey Patton, The Defenders Online - A Civil Rights Blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund web site, April 13, 2010
Spanking children can lead to aggressive behavior: study, AFP,
April 13, 2010
Another Reason Not to Spank: Raising a Bully, By Psych Central News Editor, Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D, April 12, 2010
How punishment can affect health,
By Jordan Riak, June 2009
Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research finds Source: PHYSORG.COM, September 25, 2009
The King of Pain, Chapter 6 of Republican Gomorrah By Max Blumenthal, 2009, Nation Books, NY.
All in the Name of the 'Last Resort':
The Abuse of Children in American Schools, By Adah Maurer, Ph. D.
Report on Physical Punishment in the United States, Elizabeth T. Gershoff, PhD / Phoenix Children’s Hospital, March 17, 2009
Being a parent is not a licence to hurt,
By Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, New Europe, (Issue : 823), March 1, 2009
Message to school board members in a district that allows paddling,
By Jordan Riak, February 17, 2009
A Violent Education, a report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, February 2009 (Large PDF file. Allow time for download.)
Human Rights Watch Publications: A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in US Public Schools August, 2008
Human Rights Watch Publications: US: End Beating of Children in Public Schools:
Abusive, Discriminatory Punishment Undermines Education Human Rights Watch, August 20, 2008
A Violent Education:
Corporal Punishment of Children in US Public Schools, By Alice Farmer, Aryeh Neier Fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, August 20, 2008
State Actors Beating Children: A Call for Judicial Relief, By Deana Pollard Sacks, Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law, August 20, 2008; Publication Pending, UC Davis Law Review, April, 2009
Disjointed or Double-Jointed? Corporal Punishment Permitted in Missouri Public Schools vs. Corporal Punishment Prohibited by State Policy, By Stephen Blower, January 2003
Spare the Rod:
Why you shouldn't hit your kids, By Alan E. Kazdin, Slate, September 24, 2008
Apply rod, spoil child, By Vivian Berger / Special to The National Law Journal, September 22, 2008
The roots of violence are not unknown:
The misled brain and the banned emotions, By Alice Miller, September 2008
The Parable of the Boxer, By Stefan Molyneux, January 2008
The case against corporal punishment of children
Converging Evidence From Social Science Research
and International Human Rights Law and Implications
for U.S. Public Policy By Elizabeth T. Gershoff, University of Michigan and
Susan H. Bitensky, Michigan State University College of Law
SOURCE: Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
2007, Vol. 13, No. 4, 231–272,
Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association,
1076-8971/08/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1076-8971.13.4.231
The Fallacies of Pro-Spanking Science: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal to the Apologetics of Two Pediatricians, By Tom Johnson, 1997
What About Spanking?,
Prepared by Ronald L. Pitzer, Family Sociologist, University of Minnesota.
Reviewed November 2008 by Kathleen Olson, Extension Education - Family Relations
Corporal punishment in schools: Is it good discipline or bad sex?,
By Jordan Riak, October 2008
Twenty good reasons to stop a bad practice, By Jordan Riak
Spanking/Paddling and the Roots of Racism, PTAVE, July 2008
Time to plug spanking loophole, By Judy Arnall, The Calgary Herald, June 27, 2008
Parenting: The line between punishment and abuse,
By Melanie Barwick, PhD., C.Psych. CBC News, June 20, 2008
Curbing Youth Violence, By Jordan Riak, May 2008
Facts vs. Opinion: School Corporal Punishment,
Compiled by Center for Effective Discipline, www.stophitting.org
Spare the Rod, Riane Eisler, May 2008
The Baumrind Fallacy
Spanking Kids Increases Risk of Sexual Problems as Adults, New Research Shows, By Murray Straus, University of New Hampshire, February 28, 2008