Child corporal punishment: Violence, law, and rights

Cruel but Not Unusual: Violence in Canadian Families

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 177-200

  McGillivray, Anne ^a   Durrant, Joan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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