Claims and counter claims about Sweden
There are a lot of claims and counter claims floating around about Sweden and last year a group of well-known experts from Sweden soundly challenged claims of increased child abuse, youth crime and unhelpful state intervention (available on request from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). What is very clear from ongoing tracking of public attitudes in Sweden is that very few parents approve of corporal punishment and that very few children surveyed (less than 10%) report ever experiencing corporal punishment.