Breaking the cycle of child physical punishment in the Philippines 

Sabel feeds her baby while working. She says parenting is hard, especially if you are doing it alone. When she was a child, her parents physically punished her by hitting her all over her body with a belt, wood or metal rod. Now that she is a mother, she does not want her children to experience physical punishment, but sometimes she feels she has no choice when they don't listen to her. “I do not want to spank them but they are stubborn so I have to do it,” Sabel says. [Albert C Reyes/Al Jazeera]

Sabel feeds her baby while working. She says parenting is hard, especially if you are doing it alone. When she was a child, her parents physically punished her by hitting her all over her body with a belt, wood or metal rod. Now that she is a mother, she does not want her children to experience physical punishment, but sometimes she feels she has no choice when they don't listen to her. “I do not want to spank them but they are stubborn so I have to do it,” Sabel says. [Albert C Reyes/Al Jazeera]