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In some states of the [[United States]] a [[foster parent]] may not spank a [[foster child]].   

In some states of the [[United States]] a [[foster parent]] may not spank a [[foster child]].   

Claiming to draw upon the latest research on brain development, therapist Alice Miller attacks childhood corporal punishment and asserts that spanking causes emotional blindness and leads to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same "abuse" on later generations, Miller alleges.<ref>[http://www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/booklist.html The Natural Child Project.]</ref>

Claiming to draw upon the latest research on brain development, therapist Alice Miller attacks childhood corporal punishment and asserts that spanking causes emotional blindness and leads to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same "abuse" on later generations, Miller alleges.<ref>[http://www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/booklist.html The Natural Child Project.]</ref> However, British teachers have warned that student behavior has markedly declined in Britain since the abolition of corporal punishment in British school about a quarter century ago. A poll of 814 teachers, conducted by Association of Teachers and Lecturers  and published in 2012, found a third had been hit or kicked by a student in the last academic year.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/apr/04/corporal-punishment-student-behaviour-worse Pupil behaviour worse since abolition of caning, warn teachers]</ref>

'''Judicial corporal punishment''' is the infliction of physical pain upon a person's body as punishment for a [[crime]] or [[infraction]], such as by caning or whipping. This kind of penalty remains on the statute book in several Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries.<ref>[http://www.corpun.com/rules.htm Country Files] at World Corporal Punishment Research.</ref>

'''Judicial corporal punishment''' is the infliction of physical pain upon a person's body as punishment for a [[crime]] or [[infraction]], such as by caning or whipping. This kind of penalty remains on the statute book in several Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries.<ref>[http://www.corpun.com/rules.htm Country Files] at World Corporal Punishment Research.</ref>