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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Twitter: @AACAP
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association in the United States dedicated to facilitating psychiatric care for children and adolescents. The Academy is headquartered in Washington, D.C. - from Wikipedia

Positions

“Corporal punishment signals to the child that a way to settle interpersonal conflicts is to use physical force and inflict pain. Such children may in turn resort to such behavior themselves”
1 June 1988
https://www.aacap.org/aacap/policy_statements/1988/Corporal_Punishment_in_Schools.aspx
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