>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 Fran

>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...