HOW CAN WE STOP THIS?
The attitudes of people have not changed since their childhood. However, Prof. Harendra illustrated the different stages we need to go through to stop corporal punishment:
Provide information and knowledge to the people, as to why we should we not beat up a child. This knowledge must be ingrained within the people.
We need to have attitudinal change; simply giving knowledge is insufficient.
We must provide skills to people regarding what to do when a child misbehaves.
Children are beaten usually because of sudden anger. After the anger has whittled, the parent is usually sad and sorry, and gives a treat to the child to compensate for the beating. Hence the child is rewarded for the bad behaviour.