Parental Use of Corporal Punishment in Europe: Intersection between Public Health and Policy

Nathalie, duRivage; Keyes, Katherine M.; Leray, Emmanuelle; Pez, Ondine; Bitfoi, Adina; Koç, Ceren; Goelitz, Dietmar; Kuijpers, Rowella; Lesinskienė, Sigita; Mihova, Zlatka; Otten, Roy; Fermanian, Christophe; Kovess-Masfety, Viviane

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118059

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“…- the policies banning physical punishment and the parental declaration of spanking their children in case of misbehaviour and to find a negative correlation after controlling for most of the social expected predictors (Durivage 2014) [ 63 ].…”

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The School Children Mental Health in Europe (SCMHE) Project: Design and First Results

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Background : The School Children Mental Health in Europe (SCMHE) project aims to build up a set of indicators to collect and monitor children's mental health in an efficient and comparable methodology across the EU countries. It concerns primary schools children aged 6 to 11 years a range where few data are available whereas school interventions are promising. Methods : Three informants were used: parents, teachers and children. In selecting instruments language, instruments were selected according to the easiness to translate them: SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) for parents and teachers and DI (Dominic Interactive). A two-step procedure was used: schools randomization then six children by class in each grade. Results : 9084 children from seven countries (Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Turkey) completed the Dominic Interactive in their own language. 6563 teachers and 6031 parents completed their questionnaire, and a total of 5574 interviews have been completed by the 3 informants. The participation rate of the children with parents in the participating schools was about 66.4%. As expected teachers report more externalised problems and less internalised problems than parents. Children report more internalised problems than parents and teachers. Boys have consistently more externalised problems than girls and this is the reverse for internalised problems. Combining the diverse informants and impairment levels children with problems requiring some sort of mental health care were about 9.9%: 76% did not see any mental health professional: 78.7% In Eastern countries 63.1% in Western Europe.

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“…As noted earlier, Bussman and colleagues' (2011) cross-sectional comparison of 5,000 parents across five countries - three with bans and two without bans -found that substantially fewer parents reported physically punishing their children in the countries with bans (Austria: 18%; Germany: 17%; Sweden: 4%) than in countries without bans (France: 51%: Spain: 54%). Another cross-sectional study compared parental physical punishment and children's mental health problems by whether the country had (Bulgaria, Germany, Netherlands, Romania) or had not (Lithuania, Turkey) prohibited physical punishment (duRivage et al, 2015). The likelihood of parents reporting frequent physical punishment was 1.7 times higher in countries where it was legal.…”

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“…The likelihood of parents reporting frequent physical punishment was 1.7 times higher in countries where it was legal. Children who were frequently physically punished had higher levels of externalizing and internalizing problems than those who experienced little to no physical punishment (duRivage et al, 2015). …”

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Promising intervention strategies to reduce parents’ use of physical punishment

Gershoff

Lee

Durrant

2017

Child Abuse & Neglect

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The strong and ever-growing evidence base demonstrating that physical punishment places children at risk for a range of negative outcomes, coupled with global recognition of children's inherent rights to protection and dignity, has led to the emergence of programs specifically designed to prevent physical punishment by parents. This paper describes promising programs and strategies designed for each of three levels of intervention - indicated, selective, and universal – and summarizes the existing evidence base of each. Areas for further program development and evaluation are identified.

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“…In a comparison of six European countries (Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, and Turkey), parents were 1.7 times more likely to report using corporal punishment in countries in which corporal punishment is legal (duRivage et al, 2015). Zolotor and Puzia (2010) reviewed evidence from the first 24 countries that passed legal bans and concluded that legal bans were associated with decreases in support and use of corporal punishment.…”

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Change over time in parents’ beliefs about and reported use of corporal punishment in eight countries with and without legal bans

Lansford

Cappa

Putnick

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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Stopping violence against children is prioritized in goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. All forms of child corporal punishment have been outlawed in 49 countries to date. Using data from 56,371 caregivers in eight countries that participated in UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, we examined change from Time 1 (2005–6) to Time 2 (2008–13) in national rates of corporal punishment of 2- to 14-year-old children and in caregivers’ beliefs regarding the necessity of using corporal punishment. One of the participating countries outlawed corporal punishment prior to Time 1 (Ukraine), one outlawed corporal punishment between Times 1 and 2 (Togo), two outlawed corporal punishment after Time 2 (Albania and Macedonia), and four have not outlawed corporal punishment as of 2016 (Central African Republic, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, and Sierra Leone). Rates of reported use of corporal punishment and belief in its necessity decreased over time in three countries; rates of reported use of severe corporal punishment decreased in four countries. Continuing use of corporal punishment and belief in the necessity of its use in some countries despite legal bans suggest that campaigns to promote awareness of legal bans and to educate parents regarding alternate forms of discipline are worthy of international attention and effort along with legal bans themselves.

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Parental Use of Corporal Punishment in Europe: Intersection between Public Health and Policy

Cited by 47 publications

References 21 publications

The School Children Mental Health in Europe (SCMHE) Project: Design and First Results

The School Children Mental Health in Europe (SCMHE) Project: Design and First Results

Promising intervention strategies to reduce parents’ use of physical punishment

Change over time in parents’ beliefs about and reported use of corporal punishment in eight countries with and without legal bans

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