Who Would Be LEAST Likely to Use Corporal Punishment

question 169

Multiple Choice

Who would be LEAST likely to use corporal punishment?

• A) an eighteenth-century upper-class parent
• B) a nineteenth-century upper-class parent
• C) a twenty-first century developed-world parent
• D) a twenty-first century developing-world parent

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