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The Council of Europe, a 47-country body, has recently launched a campaign to abolish physical punishment, says The Economist. Throughout the world, the movement to end corporal punishment is gaining ground:

• Some 23 countries (18 of them European) have banned corporal punishment completely.
• There are 106 countries -- including many places where it was common only a generation ago -- that have put a stop to corporal punishment in schools.
• In 1979, Sweden became the first country to outlaw all violence by adults on children.

Regardless of the law, social changes are making parents in rich countries much more reluctant to use spanking, says the Economist.

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