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Attitudes to physical punishment of children are changing Amanda J. D'Souza, Marie Russell, Beth Wood, Louise Signal and Dawn Elder

By: D'Souza, Amanda J.
Contributor(s): Russell, Marie | Wood, Beth | Signal, Louise | Elder, Dawn.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleSeries: Archives of Disease in Childhood.Publisher: BMJ, 2016Subject(s): ATTITUDES | CHILDREN | CORPORAL PUNISHMENT | CRIMES (SUBSTITUTED SECTION 59) AMENDMENT ACT 2007 | DISCIPLINE | LEGISLATION | NEW ZEALANDOnline resources: Read the abstract Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2016, Advance online publication, 10 May 2016Summary: "In 2007, after years of community advocacy, parent education and contentious public debate, New Zealand was the first English-speaking country to achieve legal prohibition of physical punishment of children in all settings. At the time, New Zealand was the 18th country to enact such a ban. This number has now increased to 46 countries, but remarkably, other English-speaking nations have yet to follow suit. This article provides a brief case study of long-term attitude change in New Zealand based on findings from public opinion surveys over the last three decades." (From the Introduction). Record #5056
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2016, Advance online publication, 10 May 2016

"In 2007, after years of community advocacy, parent education and contentious public debate, New Zealand was the
first English-speaking country to achieve legal prohibition of physical punishment of children in all settings. At the time, New Zealand was the 18th country to enact such a ban. This number has now increased to 46 countries, but remarkably, other English-speaking nations have yet to follow suit. This article provides a brief case study of long-term attitude change in New Zealand based on findings from public opinion surveys over the last three decades." (From the Introduction). Record #5056