MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives has passed on third and final reading a proposed measure that prohibits “spanking” of children.
House Bill 4455 or the Positive Discipline bill, authored by Tarlac Rep. Susan Yap, prohibits acts that are perceived as abusive to children and advocates positive and non-violent means to discipline children.
America uses flawed methods to tally and analyze the deaths of children who have been maltreated, and the latest annual estimate of 1,770…4.8 children per day…such fatalities is likely too low, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report to Congress.
Better data, says the GAO, would aid in developing strategies that could save many children’s lives in the future.
The GAO report, the subject of a House Human Resources
In the inaugural issue of a health magazine, which is dedicated to consumers with education supporting safe and healthy living; one article title grabbed my attention: Obesity Epidemic Confronting Our Youth.
While I agree child obesity is epidemic, the article title implies that obesity is a sinister monster lurking in the grocery store or the home environment diabolically grabbing innocent children; wrestling them to the ground and forcing junk food down their throats. Obesity is a family lifestyle – nothing more; nothing less. Children eat what their parents buy.
When stories of child sexual abuse hit the media and the victim is a teenager, or perhaps even a little younger, faulty underlying assumptions about the victim’s responsibility emerge. Many also jump to troubling conclusions when the victim is an adolescent or teenage boy.
The government on Monday assured the high court of taking all measures to stamp out corporal punishment from schools across the state. The government on Monday assured the high court of taking all measures to stamp out corporal punishment from schools across the state.
Government pleader Ashok Banerjee gave the assurance during the hearing of a petition seeking penal action against three teachers of Nopany High School in central Calcutta for allegedly inflicting corporal punishment on a student.
Government pleader Ashok Banerjee gave the assurance during the hearing of a petition seeking penal action against three teachers of Nopany High School in central Calcutta for allegedly inflicting corporal punishment on a student.