Payne, Monica Anne2022-01-182022-01-181989184https://hdl.handle.net/2139/52287In this study, 449 adults, aged 20 to 59 years, completed written questionnaires to indicate their views. Approximately 70 percent of respondents "generally approved" of corporal punishment, and three-quarters of the remainder considered it occasionally appropriate. There was evidence of considerable consensus as to what constitutes legitimate use of physical punishment and what is unsuitable and/or abusive. A small minority thought corporal punishment more generally undesirable or unproductive within the context of contemporary Barbadian societyCorporal punishment