It depends on where you are in some areas telling your child he or she looks fat in an outfit as a precaution not to wear it and be laughed at counts as emotional abuse.

Is it illegal to slap your child in the face. Some may tolerate and others wont. The line between corporal punishment and physical abuse can be blurry but the general agreement in all 50 states is that it is always acceptable for a parent or legal guardian to open-hand slap or. A parent who strikes a child in the face hard enough to leave fingerprints and bruising has used excessive force and can be put on a list of abusive parents a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Even across the face open hand just hard enough to make a slap sound. Here is an updated country report for the United States. Punishment involving slaps or blows to the head is harmful the Court held.

Have also changes practice area to child abuse as question has nothing to do with child support. Physical discipline also known as corporal punishment is defined by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child as any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort however light. This defence is laid down in section 58 Children Act 2004 but it is not defined in this legislation.

It might sound hard to believe but the United States does not currently have federal laws prohibiting the use of corporal punishment. Being convicted of harassment is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by. This is even greater when you slap a child across the face in public.

Its not the only country though as the UK Canada Australia and South Africa dont have any laws on the books about it at the time of writing this. Hitting your child across the face wont effectively help there behaviour as the ends do not justify the means. You are not legally permitted to slap your child in the face for most of Europe and South America.

On the contrary children who grew up having a positive self-image will not tolerate an abusive partner and will be more likely to leave the relationship sooner than later. Up to six months in county jail This is even greater when you slap a child across the face in public. A loving slap of discipline is not child abuse.