KUWAIT

A 1996 study of 321 Kuwaiti parents with at least one living child attending primary health care clinics in each of the five administrative areas of Kuwait, using a structured questionnaire interview, found 86% agreeing to corporal punishment as a method of child discipline. About 54% agreed or strongly agreed with severe physical beating in cases of gross misbehaviour; 2% agreed with throwing against the wall; 9% agreed or strongly agreed with burning; and 15% agreed with locking a child in a room. Approval of physical punishment was higher the lower the level of education.

(Qasem, F.S. et al., 1998, "Attitudes of Kuwaiti parents toward physical punishment of children", Child Abuse & Neglect, vol.22, no.12, pp.1189-1202)