REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

A 2009 survey of 206 teachers in primary schools in Chis¸ina˘u found that 68% belived that corporal punishment is humiliating for the child and 58% believed that it meant that “the parents are not good at rearing children”. 51% 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, 40% believed this. In a 2009 nationwide study, 55% of respondents believed that corporal punishment should not be used, compared to 37% in 2005. In 2005, 11%  of respondents said that corporal punishment “may be used if the parent believes it will be effective”; in 2009, 5% of respondents said this.

(National Center for Child Abuse Prevention and Nobody’s Children Foundation, 2009, Chisinau teachers’ attitudes toward child abuse
www.canee.net/files/Teachers studies Moldova 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

According to statistics from UNICEF, of girls and women aged 15-49, 21% think that a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife under certain circumstances; 23% of boys and men aged 15-49 believe this.

(UNICEF, 2009,  Progress for Children: A report card on child protection, NY: UNICEF
www.childinfo.org/files/Progress_for_Children-No.8_EN.pdf)

In 2004, the Working Group on Development of Policies and Strategies in the Field of Small Children Care and Development, supported by UNICEF, carried out a national study on children's health, education and experience of violence and abuse. Of the 4-7 year old children questioned, 58.4% reported being beaten at home.

(Reported in Government Response to UN Study on Violence Against Children Questionnaire, September 2005)