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Georgia Forrester02:05, Apr 30 2021 Charles Deluvio/ Unsplash A researcher says it's disappointing some parents still view physical punishment, such as smacking, as an acceptable form of discipline. (File photo) It’s still “fairly common” for some parents to physically discipline their children, despite the country’s anti-smacking law change, new research has found. In an effort to improve child health outcomes in New Zealand, the Government introduced anti-smacking legislation in 2007 that prohibited the physical punishment of children. New research, published in the New Zealand M...

'All children deserve to grow up in a safe and secure family environment.'

File image Photo: Unsplash / Jelleke Vanooteghem The research, published in the Medical Journal, is based on data collected as part of the 40-year Christchurch Health and Development Study, which has followed more than 1000 participants since they were born in 1977. In this study, University of Otago researchers tracked participants who were parents over a 15-year period between 2002 and 2017, when they were aged between 25 and 40, and collected information about how they disciplined their children. Researchers found minor assaults against children reduced over that time by almost half, from...

+Undoctored Media release from the University of Otago, Christchurch Wednesday 28 April 2021, 02:48 PM 2 minutes to Read ‘Positive parenting’ can reduce the risk of alcohol and other substance abuse in adulthood, a new University of Otago, Christchurch study has found. Professor Joe Boden and his team analysed data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study – a world-renowned longitudinal study that has followed the lives of more than 1000 people born in Canterbury in 1977. They found people living in a more positive, warm home environment during adolescence had lower ra...

Research from Otago University has found ''positive parenting" can prevent alcohol abuse in adulthood 29 April 2021 Academics looked at data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study - the world renowned longitudinal research that's followed the lives of more than a thousand people since 1977. Psychological medicine professor Joe Boden says his team examined symptoms of alcohol disorder in adulthood. He says kids who had more positive parenting, are much less likely to develop an alcohol use disorder - than those who had been exposed to less positive parenting.