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NPR | What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking?
Published: 26 October 2018
Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights. And, says Frank Elgar, the study's lead author and an associate professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at º«¹úÂãÎè in Montreal, "The association appears to be fairly robust."Â