When Discipline Crosses the Line: Philippine Courts Draw Boundaries on Child Abuse

Children subjected to excessive physical punishment including beatings with nailed wooden rods, hair pulling, and kicks for minor infractions suffer lasting psychological and physical harm that manifests as bullying behavior toward peers.

Philippine courts have spent years drawing a careful line between parental discipline and child abuse, and in doing so have illuminated a truth that reaches far beyond the courtroom: the violence children absorb at home does not remain there. Through a series of landmark rulings interpreting Republic Act 7610, the Supreme Court has affirmed that parental authority is real but not absolute, and that when correction becomes cruelty—disproportionate, excessive, and aimed at diminishing a child's dignity—the law will name it for what it is. What the courts are quietly insisting upon is that the sa

When Discipline Crosses the Line: Philippine Courts Draw Boundaries on Child Abuse

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