Jane Callaghan, written submission
The Faculty of Public Health agreed that “The majority of studies that investigated the effects of physical punishment in the context of a loving family found that the harmful effects of physical punishment were the same even when levels of maternal warmth were high.”Faculty of Public Health, written submission
John Finnie MSP told us—
There is a connection between physical punishment in childhood and subsequent violence, and it is appropriate to point out that it is not just the academics who have said that.