Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

A Dane County pastor will spend the next two years in prison after a jury found him guilty of instructing his church members to use corporal punishment on their children. Through his trial, pastor ...

Critics argued that corporal punishment has proved ineffective in putting pupils in check. In most cases, it resulted in injuries and avoidable deaths. They reckoned that beyond arrests, issuance of ...