Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty Images) (Tomwang112 via Getty Images) When children head to school each ...

After one Missouri school district brought back corporal punishment, some parents are opting in on the new policy as a number of students protest. Dakota Russell, 35, has two daughters, ages 8 and 6, ...

Until the late 1980s, it was common for students to be spanked when they misbehaved in school. This controversial method of discipline is known as corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is when a ...

Robbinsville High School sits in a small gap in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Green slopes dotted with cattle hug in around the school before they rise into a thick cover of pine trees. David ...

ATLANTA — Corporal punishment in schools is controversial but legal in the United States, and Congressional proposals to ban the practice have gone nowhere. Parents are putting away the belts and ...

In Alabama, it's still legal for parents, and in some cases schools, to physically use corporal punishment. While many states have banned the practice in classrooms, Alabama law allows corporal ...

Junior enlisted soldiers will soon have to pin on the rank of corporal before they can become sergeants, according to an Army news release. Corporals are formally recognized as noncommissioned ...