KUALA LUMPUR: All forms of corporal punishment, including spanking, slapping, pinching, hair-pulling and whipping, are illegal and severely frowned upon in Sweden.
The Nordic country became the first to ban physical punishment against children under any circumstances, both at home and in school, on March 15, 1979.
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