Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty Images) When children head to school each morning, they have a lot on ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

UPDATE: This story has been updated to include responses to Simcha Eichenstein’s claims regarding abuse at yeshivas. (New York Jewish Week) — A group of New York State Assembly members and state ...

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment against schoolchildren does not violate the Constitution. Justices ruled 5-4 in the Ingraham v. Wright decision that constitutional ...

None — In North Carolina, it is illegal to hit an inmate, but every day in the state's public schools children are paddled. North Carolina is one of 19 states that still allow corporal punishment to ...

Did you see the video of a high school basketball coach whipping a player that went viral recently and spawned a mass of outraged viewers? Murrah High School’s Marlon Dorsey admitted to “paddling” his ...

In Alabama, it's still legal for parents, and in some cases schools, to physically use corporal punishment. While many states have banned the practice in classrooms, Alabama law allows corporal ...

I attended school in the ’50s and ’60s, when corporal punishment was allowed, but not used often because, I believe, it was fairly effective. Going to a Catholic school in the ’50s, I experienced my ...