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Physical punishment in child rearing: A background paper to the campaign for EPOCH (End Physical Punishment of Children) in Australia.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Peter Boss
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With attention focussed on child abuse and measures for child protection in many countries around the world, efforts have been made to understand something of the nature and dimensions that lie behind abuse. Now the time has come to look at domestic violence in its other manifestations - not only parent to child as in child abuse, but also husband to wife or cohabiter to cohabiter. What, however, has been missing from this widening of concerns has been a focus on parental behaviour toward their children which involves the use of physical punishment in child rearing but which may fall short of the legal definition of abuse. This gap is about to be considered with the emergence in Australia of the EPOCH campaign in which Oz Child is to be a leading participant.

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Research Article
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Children Australia , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , 1995 , pp. 27 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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