Child rights advocates have called on President Aquino to help put an end to corporal

punishment in the country by urging Congress to finally pass a bill imposing a ban
and encouraging positive discipline instead.
In an open letter sent to Malacaang in time for Aquinos State of the Nation Address
on Monday, Save the Children and other prochild groups said that due to lack of such
a law, children in the country remained vulnerable to physical and emotional
punishment.
The nongovernment organization said that a Pulse Asia survey conducted in 2011
showed that two out of three parents admitted to disciplining their children below 16
years old through corporal punishmentranging from pinching and spanking to
whipping with a belt. Save the Children added that in its 2005 study, it discovered that
85 percent of Filipino kids were punished at home.
Child rights advocates have called on President Aquino to help put an end to corporal
punishment in the country by urging Congress to finally pass a bill imposing a ban
and encouraging positive discipline instead.
In an open letter sent to Malacaang in time for Aquinos State of the Nation Address
on Monday, Save the Children and other prochild groups said that due to lack of such
a law, children in the country remained vulnerable to physical and emotional
punishment.
The nongovernment organization said that a Pulse Asia survey conducted in 2011
showed that two out of three parents admitted to disciplining their children below 16
years old through corporal punishmentranging from pinching and spanking to
whipping with a belt. Save the Children added that in its 2005 study, it discovered that
85 percent of Filipino kids were punished at home.