The committee also recommended that the Department of Health undertake research on the different methods of discipline and the effects of corporal punishment on children. [...] The researchers concluded that "a decline in physical punishment of children does not occur automatically but that the implementation of a law is necessary" because they discovered that there was a significant decline in the use of corporal punishment only after the law had been passed and not in the years prior to the ban (Freer, 2020). [...] The Complexity of the Issue When considering corporal punishment of children, it is important to appreciate the complexity of the issue at hand. [...] 4 C ASW’s Position on Section 43 The Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) supports the repeal of section 43 of the Criminal Code, which justifies the use of reasonable force for the correction of children by teachers, parents, or guardians. [...] Finally, it must be noted that the fulsome implementation of all the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ Calls for Justice must be fully implemented to begin to a ddress the deep-rooted issues in both child protection and justice systems in Canada.
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