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In 2008, 3840 households took part in a survey about corporal punishment, including children's opinions of it. In each household, the head of the household and one young person aged between 9 and 18 was interviewed.

The research found that:

The cover of the 2008 report. Click to read the report.

• Corporal punishment happened a lot in schools. Young people did not think that their gender, religion or where they were from affected how much corporal punishment they experienced. But poorer young people suffered more and worse corporal punishment.
• Corporal punishment could cause children to not attend or even drop out of school.
• Teachers who used corporal punishment often taught in schools with big classes and poor learning environments.
• Corporal punishment happened a lot in the home. It was used a lot by mothers.
• 25% of working children said that corporal punishment happened to them at work - much less than it happened to children at home or at school.
• The children did not know a lot about their rights. Often, they thought that parents and teachers using corporal punishment was normal and OK.

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