ABSTRACT
Corporal punishment includes any use of physical punishment against a child in response to misbehavior. This most commonly includes spanking, smacking, and slapping but also includes the use of an object. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child asserts that states should take “all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence.”* The United States and Somalia are the only nations who have failed to ratify a UN Convention resolution addressing the need to eliminate the tolerance of corporal punishment (Zolotor, Theodore, Runyan, Chang, & Laskey, 2010).
