SINGAPORE – A recent study has shown that physical punishment is commonly used by parents in Singapore.
Nearly one in two parents – or 45 per cent of respondents – resorted to at least one form of corporal punishment, such as spanking or using an object to hit the child, in the past year, the 2021 study found.
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