The lack of a law against corporal punishment of children in the homemakes violence against children seem "inevitable and normal", accordingto a report for the United Nations.
The UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children urges allnations to outlaw corporal punishment. Just 16 countries have bannedviolent punishment of children at home and England only has a partialban.
The study recommends that all nations ban all forms of violence againstchildren and draw up strategies to tackle it. It adds that all countriesshould discourage people from condoning or normalising violence againstchildren. It recommends family-based care over institutional care, andsays children in residential care should be reintegrated with theirfamilies under the right conditions.
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