LITHUANIA

38% of respondents to a 2009 survey of 500 15-74 year olds believed that corporal punishment should never be used, 56% said that corporal punishment “should not be used in general but in certain situations it is justifiable” and 5% felt that corporal punishment was acceptable “if the parent believes that it will be effective”. 29% of respondents in 2009 believed that corporal punishment was experienced by more than 65% of children in Lithuania.

(Children support centre, 2009, Attitude towards physical punishment of children
www.canee.net/files/Omnibus research Lithuania 2009.pdf)
Part of  the Childhood Without Abuse project, which includes studies carried out in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine in 2005 and 2009.  www.canee.net/bulgaria/research_on_the_problem_of_child_abuse_in_eastern_europe

A 2009 survey of 123 teachers in primary schools in Vilnius found that 64% belived that corporal punishment is humiliating for the child and 59% believed that it meant that “the parents are not good at rearing children”. 15% of respondents felt that the use of “spanking” as a punishment would justify intervention by a third party. In an identical survey of a similar sample in 2005, 13% believed this. On average, respondents in 2009 estimated that 42% of children in Lithuania experience spanking as punishment, compared to an average estimate of 58% in 2005. 

(Children Support Centre and Nobody’s Children Foundation, 2009, Vilnius teachers’ attitudes toward child abuse
www.canee.net/files/Teachers studies Lithuania 2009.pdf)
Part of  the Childhood Without Abuse project, which includes studies carried out in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine in 2005 and 2009.  www.canee.net/bulgaria/research_on_the_problem_of_child_abuse_in_eastern_europe