[HTML][HTML] Corporal punishment of children in Australia: The evidence-based case for legislative reform

SS Havighurst, B Mathews, FL Doyle… - Australian and New …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective Across all of Australia's states and territories, it is legal for a parent or
carer to hit their child. In this paper, we outline the legal context for corporal punishment in …

Exploring the association between childhood trauma and limbic system subregion volumes in healthy individuals: a neuroimaging study

S Lu, Y Xu, D Cui, S Hu, M Huang, L Li, L Zhang - BMC psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Background Childhood trauma (CT) is a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders. Emotional
and cognitive functions are often affected in many psychiatric conditions, and these functions …

Different concepts of neighborhood safety and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors

L Beyer, CA Enthoven, JO Groeniger… - American Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Neighborhood safety is defined inconsistently across epidemiologic studies–a conceptual
problem that results in incomparable measurements, hampering the design of health …

Childhood violence exposure and anxiety and depression of children and adolescents

R Wang, B Zhu, X Yu, W Tan, Q Shi - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Mental disorders constitute a global public health problem worldwide and
occurs in childhood and lasts to adulthood. The purpose of this study was to explore the …

Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning

SW Delaney, AP Cortes Hidalgo… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Violence victimization may cause child behavior problems and neurostructural differences
associated with them. Healthy family environments may buffer these effects, but neural …

[PDF][PDF] Policy Bench

G Sansone - 2024 - cwrp.ca
Background: At least 67 countries around the world have fully prohibited corporal
punishment of children. However, in Canada, Section 43 of the Criminal Code currently …