Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part One: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children

June 15, 2026·53 min
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Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children. Sources: https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-worldhttps://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/https://www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-to-education.org/files/resource-attachments/CRC_1989.pdfhttps://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog?offset=1437445500607https://www.puyallupwa.gov/535/Domestic-Violence-Statisticshttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7390231/https://issop.org/2018/11/19/e-bulletin-35-2-3-changing-the-law-on-corporal-punishment-in-scotland/https://news.utexas.edu/2021/06/29/evidence-against-physically-punishing-kids-is-clear-researchers-say/http://www.jillianvanturnhout.ie/jvt1111/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26938757?seq=6https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdfhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/383296874_Corporal_Punishment_From_Ancient_History_to_Global_Progresshttps://medium.com/@rabittashahbaz/heres-how-ancient-indian-parenting-values-and-approaches-changed-over-time-4d861b489388https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/180595/20090210ATT48998EN.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-first_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Irelandhttps://brilliantmaps.com/corporal-punishment/https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29261462https://agefinder.org/world-age-culture/marriage-age-under-18-countries/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Childhttps://www.africanexponent.com/how-colonialism-deceived-africans-to-believe-hitting-children-is-african-tradition-it-is-not/https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-02/corporal-punishment-current-rates-from-a-national-survey.pdf https://www.brookings.edu/articles/corporal-punishment-schools-and-race-an-update/ https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ACADEMIA/SCHOOLS/SSW/MSW%20publications/s12111-024-09646-9%20%281%29.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160127213730/http://www.phoenixchildrens.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/principles_and_practices-of_effective_discipline.pdf https://endcorporalpunishment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/India.pdf https://endcorporalpunishment.org/irelands-journey-why-didnt-we-do-this-years-ago/ https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_13 https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf https://habevio.com/corporal-punishment-in-ancient-greece/ https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2025-10635-001.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110314161338/http://www.zona-pellucida.com/wilson02.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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