Associate Professor, Law Department, Mofid University, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
Nowadays despite cumulative effort faring for advocacy of children, various kinds of violence and oppression against them especially in corporal punishment mode still hold. This article by studying advanced standpoints and reviewing of the results of corporal punishment intends to answer these questions: is child corporal punishment allowed along decorum and nurturance of him? And do standpoint of the shia (fighhe imamie) and rules of the Iranian civil code hereupon accord with the convention on the Rights of the child?
