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There are a few things that are incorrect in this article: * Indeed French kids could be diagnosed as having ADHD, for example in CRA [0] (in French). I know i

• jaclaz 9y ago
  >* Spanking is forbidden in France by law and most parents do not spank. To be fair, while I believe most French parents do not spank their children, nor did it in recent years, the Law is rather new: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/france-bans-spanking-kids-with-new-law_us_5873ccc1e4b02b5f858a39ff https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/france-bans-spanking-ki... and is not a crime, as said in the above article is more a symbolic act to make clear that it shouldn't be done than anything else. But, let's set aside France and french kids, more widely mosr European countries have a percentage of diagnosed ADHD that is a fraction of those in the US, and even if the numbers of diagnoses tend to increase, it is IMHO largely because of the US influence (not only in psichology and psichiatry, also in "way of life"). Some reference: http://menzonius.nl/index.php/article-review-the-impending-globalization-of-adhd-notes-on-the-expansion-and-growth-of-a-medicalized-disorder/ http://menzonius.nl/index.php/article-review-the-impending-g...
  • JPLeRouzic 9y ago
    > while I believe most French parents do not spank their children, nor did it in recent years, the Law is rather new: I think the French law on this topic is more or less aligned on international standards which are quite recent at WHO or in EU. But one of the first regulations in France about spanking in school was passed in 1795 (even if I saw some violent teachers in the 60")
    • jaclaz 9y ago
      >I think the French law on this topic is more or less aligned on international standards which are quite recent at WHO or in EU. Maybe it is now, actually France received a complaint by the Council of Europe in 2015 for NOT having such a Law (together with a few other EU countries) or not having it "clear enough": https://www.coe.int/bs/web/portal/full-news/-/asset_publisher/Dgh51iCGvfbg/content/corporal-punishment-of-children https://www.coe.int/bs/web/portal/full-news/-/asset_publishe... http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/press-releases/France-collective-complaint-decision-statement-EN.pdf http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/press-relea... https://web.archive.org/web/20150305031324/http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Complaints/CC92Merits_en.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150305031324/http://www.coe.in... Of course one thing is the Law, and another thing is practice, as said I believe that in most EU countries, even those that do not have a "proper" Law the actual use of corporal punishments (within the family) is largely a thing of the past. About corporal punishment in schools or anyway outside the family/paretns (which is another thing), I believe it is forbidden everywhere, and as you mentioned last occurrences were probably in the '60's, see the map here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment#Legal_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment#Legal_stat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment#/media/File:Corporal_punishment_in_Europe.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment#/media/Fil...