--- title: See Every Country Where Spanking Is Still Legal in One Chart description: It has been banned in 43 countries so far canonical: https://time.com/3629958/only-one-english-speaking-country-has-outlawed-spanking/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-11T17:48:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:27.141Z og:title: MAP: Where it's Legal to Spank Your Kids og:description: It has been banned in 43 countries so far og:url: https://time.com/3629958/only-one-english-speaking-country-has-outlawed-spanking/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f4272b631d36fad/69876e2acd684805140988ec/map.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: map og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: MAP: Where it's Legal to Spank Your Kids twitter:description: It has been banned in 43 countries so far twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f4272b631d36fad/69876e2acd684805140988ec/map.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Every Country Where Spanking Is Still Legal in One Chart by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 11, 2014 5:48 PM UTC  ➞ Click to enlarge | Sources: Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children; Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children ➞ Click to enlarge | Sources: Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children; Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against ChildrenHeather Jones / TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 11, 2014 5:48 PM UTC Every time a new controversy erupts about parents who use spanking to discipline their kids, such as the [Adrian Peterson story](http://time.com/3599554/adrian-peterson-apologizes/), there’s a whole new round of discussion about the most appropriate way to discipline kids. This week Time for Family takes [a deep look at the best way to discipline kids](http://time.com/the-discipline-wars-2/): who really spanks their kids, under what circumstances and whether it works. And, most critically, whether there anything else works better. So far 43 countries have outlawed spanking, and two more are about to. Here’s a map with some surprising ways different countries are handling corporal punishment of children. Oh and if you like this, be sure to [sign up for TIME’s parenting weekly newsletter here](http://time.com/t4parents). See Every Country Where Spanking Is Still Legal in One Chart ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3629958/only-one-english-speaking-country-has-outlawed-spanking/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3629958/only-one-english-speaking-country-has-outlawed-spanking/"},"headline":"See Every Country Where Spanking Is Still Legal in One Chart","datePublished":"2014-12-11T17:48:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:27.141Z","description":"It has been banned in 43 countries so far","url":"https://time.com/3629958/only-one-english-speaking-country-has-outlawed-spanking/","keywords":["Living","Parenting","Family","legal","Map","Spanking","Discipline"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f4272b631d36fad/69876e2acd684805140988ec/map.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f4272b631d36fad/69876e2acd684805140988ec/map.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"map","caption":"➞ Click to enlarge | Sources: Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children; Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children","creditText":"Heather Jones / TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3629958/only-one-english-speaking-country-has-outlawed-spanking/","name":"See Every Country Where Spanking Is Still Legal in One Chart"}}]}] ```