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New data from more than 700 Kiwis suggests physical discipline of children by parents dropped between 2002 and 2017.
However, the study authors say the practice remains fairly common, even after the 2007 anti-smacking law came into place, and they call for more effort to promote child-friendly parenting techniques.
The SMC asked experts to comment on the research.
Dr Melanie Woodfield, Clinical Psychologist, Health Research Council Fellow – The Werry Centre for infant, child and adolescent mental health, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, comments:
“Most parents don’t start the day intending to strike their child. Yet the latest paper from the internationally-regarded Christchurch longitudinal study suggests physical punishment is still used by a subset of parents. Encouragingly though, the overall trend is downward.
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Physical punishment happening less, but still common – study
There is a clear downward trend in the number of parents using physical violence as a punishment in New Zealand, but its use is still relatively common, a new University of Otago study reveals.
Anti-smacking legislation that prohibited the use of physical punishment of children was introduced in New Zealand in 2007. The Otago study, to be published tomorrow in the New Zealand Medical Journal, spans before and after the legislation came into force and examines how the prevalence of child physical punishment changed between 2002 to 2017.
The 763 parents studied were members of the longitudinal Christchurch Health and Development Study which started in 1977.
Friday, 30 April 2021, 8:43 am
New data from more than 700 Kiwis suggests physical
discipline of children by parents dropped between 2002 and
2017.
However, the study authors say the practice
remains fairly common, even after the 2007 anti-smacking law
came into place, and they call for more effort to promote
child-friendly parenting techniques.
The SMC asked
experts to comment on the research.
Dr Melanie
Woodfield, Clinical Psychologist, Health Research Council
Fellow – The Werry Centre for infant, child and adolescent
mental health, Department of Psychological Medicine,
University of Auckland, comments:
“Most parents
don’t start the day intending to strike their child. Yet
the latest paper from the internationally-regarded