The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

 

Volume 72 Number 1
January 2005		 back to contents
Corporal Punishment of Children in England and the United States: Current Issues 45-46
Jeremy Hugh Baron, D.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P.G.

From the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address correspondence to Dr. J.H. Baron, Division of Gastroenterology, Box 1069, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029-6574.

Presented at the Mount Sinai-Oxford-London Consortium on Bioethics and Social Responsibility at King’s College School of Medicine, London, UK on April 11, 2002, and accepted March 2004.

Abstract

Proverbs has eight sets of instructions on beating children, but that book does not contain the often cited proverbial “spare the rod and spoil the child.” This form of discipline, which is thousands of years old, has only recently been abandoned and forbidden in many states in the US, and in much of Europe. It is still legal in Britain and some US states, and remains a controversial issue.

KEYWORDS

Child-beating, Europe, US, Canada.

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