Social and legal issues of corporal punishment of children

Abstract

Since the end of the twentieth century, domestic violence is considered as a public offense, because violence against children harms the child’s personality and makes child feeble, cowardly and cruel individual. For this reason, are developed ensuring policy of childhood safety and well-being. There are two opposing views on the rights of the child to be protected from all forms of violence. One of them has a view that family’s privacy or the right of parents to educate their children is more important than the child’s interests, the second theory promoters say that the right of parents to educate and raise children is not absolute. Parental discretion is limited by the child’s needs, interests and rights, therefore is prohibited to use corporal punishment or apply methods which humiliate the child.