Child Advocacy

#StopShamingKids Campaign Protecting children from public shaming on Facebook
Intervening with Angry Parents in Public Have you ever witnessed a parent threatening or hitting their kid in public, and you wanted to do something, but you didn’t know what to do…so you did nothing?
Seattle Times OP ED – Shaming Kids Parents shaming their own children on social media is a disturbing trend. Guest columnist Robbyn Peters Bennett urges people not to tolerate or cheer this phenomenon.
Spanking Harms Children – WebMD
TED Talk: Violence, a Family Tradition Robbyn speaks about Spanking as Domestic Violence that drives Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Research

2017 AWARDED Article of the Year in Child Abuse & Neglect 2017 Article of the Year in Child Abuse & Neglect The official journal of The International Society of the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN). This paper was chosen as Article of the Year out of the 238 manuscripts published in Child Abu
Spanking is an Adverse Childhood Experience To determine if spanking should be considered an ACE, this study aimed to examine 1): the grouping of spanking with physical and emotional abuse; and 2) if spanking has similar associations with poor adult health problems and accounts for additional model

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