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Glob Health Action
December 2024
Department of Microbiology, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju, South Korea.
Background: The global prevalence of violence against children is alarmingly high, with millions facing violent discipline and physical punishment. In Mongolia, domestic violence-related criminal offenses have sharply increased, with a 46.92% surge in the first quarter of 2020 compared to 2019.
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June 2024
IZA, Germany; University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School, UK. Electronic address:
Violent childrearing practices represent an invisible threat for global health and human development. Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential pathway through which parental educational similarity may relate to child health and wellbeing over the life course. The study uses data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) covering 27 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.
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January 2024
School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia. Electronic address:
Background: Although the literature suggests a negative association between early childhood development (ECD) and violent disciplinary measures, little is known about the gradient of this relationship.
Objective: This study examined the gradient of the relationship between the number and types of child discipline practices at home and the ECD of children aged from 36-to-59 months.
Participants And Setting: The study used nationally representative data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Bangladesh 2019.
Front Public Health
September 2023
Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St. George's, Grenada.
Childrearing practices in the Caribbean and other postcolonial states have long been associated with corporal punishment and are influenced by expectations of children for respectfulness and obedience. Evidence across settings shows that physical punishment of young children is both ineffective and detrimental. Saving Brains Grenada (SBG) implemented a pilot study of an intervention based on the Conscious Discipline curriculum that aimed to build adult caregivers' skills around non-violent child discipline.
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August 2019
Northeastern University, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, 360 Huntington Ave, M/S 314 INV, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Background: In the past month, an estimated eight of ten children worldwide have experienced violent discipline. Understanding the economic and social contexts in which parents are more likely to use particular disciplinary practices is necessary to reduce violence against children. Critical examination of disciplinary practices and beliefs in cross-country analysis of low- and middle-income countries (LMICS) has been limited.
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