Children who have had bad experiences of being smacked are more likely to have poor mental health and behavioural problems as they get older, research shows. (Getty Images) Leading children's doctors ...
Michelle Obama has revealed that she previously smacked her two daughters. (WireImage) Former First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed she stopped spanking her daughters because she felt "embarrassed." ...
Is it ever OK smack your own children? Does physical punishment ever have a place in parenting? This is a divisive, long-running debate that reared its head again this week, with a definitive report ...
A mother-of-two says she is "baffled" that smacking a child was ever legal in Wales, nearly three years on from a ban being introduced. Mari Ellis Dunning, 32, said she sought "to meet my kids with ...
A whole host of celebrities including Sir Michael Caine, Natalie Dormer and Alan Shearer are throwing their weight behind a campaign to finally ban smacking children in England. In Wales, Scotland and ...
The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds. Many non-human primates demonstrate lip-smacking behavior, but geladas are the only ones ...