The House of Representatives on Monday approved on final reading a bill preventing corporal punishment and promoting the positive and nonviolent discipline of children. With 163 voting in the affirmative, two negative and zero abstention, the lower chamber approved on third reading House Bill No. 8239, or the “Positive and Non-Violent Discipline of Children Act” which seeks to protect children from physical, humiliating, or degrading acts as a form of punishment. ADVERTISEMENTThe proposed measure shields children from the grave consequences of corporal punishment by prohibiting the infliction of all forms of humiliating or degrading punishment on them in all settings. The Senate approved on Oct. 8 its counterpart bill – Senate Bill No.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 12, 2018 12:28 UTC