The Parenting without Violence approach is designed as a universal preventative program for use in development and humanitarian contexts to prevent physical and humiliating punishment of children and to improve positive parenting capacities of fathers, mothers, and caregivers of girls and boys of all ages. Developed by Save the Children, the approach has the following objectives:

• Improve parent/caregiver’s capacity to practice positive parenting.
• Reduce the physical and humiliating punishment of children in the home.
• Improve the quality of parent/caregiverchild relationships.
• Increase children’s resilience and confidence to express their views and feelings in their home and to seek support when they feel unsafe.
• Strengthen social norms and gender and power dynamics that support equal responsibility for positive, non-discriminatory parenting.
• Strengthen equitable and gender sensitive child protection systems that prevent and respond to violence in the home.