Coleman, D. L., Dodge, K. A., & Campbell, S. K.2014-09-172014-09-172010Coleman, D. L., Dodge, K. A., & Campbell, S. K. (2010). Where and how to draw the line between reasonable corporal punishment and abuse. Law and contemporary problems, 73(2), 107.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805039/http://hdl.handle.net/11212/1729Nonaccidental physical injuries children suffer at the hands of their parents occur along a continuum that ranges from mild to severe. At the outer edges of this continuum, one might find, on the one hand, a slight swat to the buttocks, and on the other, a brutal beating. In the United States, the normative consensus appears to be that outsiders to the family are appropriately concerned only when the physical injury at issue causes serious harm; any injury short of a serious one is exclusively “family business.”en-UScorporal punishmentphysical abusedisciplineArticle