Parental Discipline Law & Legal Definition
Parents of a child may use reasonable force or impose reasonable punishments on their child to control, train, and educate the child. This process is called parental discipline.
The parents have a right to exercise control over their children; provided that they use reasonable force on them to control, train and educate them. The law recognizes this parental right as the Parental Discipline Privilege. The force used by the parent should be appropriate to the age, sex, physical and mental state of the child on whom the force is used. The nature of the misconduct of the child for which the parent exercises such corrective measures and the severity and foreseeable consequences of the punishment is considered to measure the severity of the act of the parent to determine if such act exceeds the parental discipline privilege.
Legal Definitions
Search Definitions
Get a Term Defined
- Request a legal definition! Submit a term you need defined.
- » Request Legal Definition
Submit a Definition
- Submit a Definition Help us build our database. Free listings for attorneys.
- » Submit a Definition
Help Build USLegal
- Join our Team and help build USLegal. Many opportunities for participation so Join our Network.
Build USLegal
Read a Law Digest
- Need to read the law or find an answer to a legal question? Visit our Law Digest for the largest selection of law digests and answers available.
Go to Law Digest
Form Packages
- Select from our most popular legal form packages.
- » Bankruptcy
- » Contract for Deed
- » Divorce
- » Employment Packages
- » Home Sales
- » Incorporation
- » LLC Formation
- » Landlord Tenant
- » Mutual Wills
- » Name Change
- » Personal Planning
- » Partnerships
- » View All Packages
Legal Life
- Organize your legal life today! View our free online guide to creating a Life Documents File and related products.
- » Life Documents File
- » Personal Planning Package
- » Life Documents Packages
- » New Parents
- » Newlyweds
- » Baby Boomers
- » Military
- » Other
Form Drafting
- Can′t find the form you need, or need a form we offer revised for your situation? Submit your request and our attorneys will review the request and let you know if the form can be provided.
Submit a drafting request...
