Agreed. That's a bit much. There's a difference between a spanking and a beating.
Drawing blood is unacceptable.
Oh, please. I don't care how many times you cut yourself and don't notice, your weird reactions don't justify punishment that leaves children with bleeding wounds and cuts that broke the skin (assuming the article is correct in its description). The idea that anyone might consider that a "good" thing breaks my heart.
"30-year-old single mother of six" combined with the fact these boys don't already know that stealing is wrong, this is indeed a colossal parenting and adulthood fail.
“We oftentimes see children who have no parental authority or discipline which eventually results in delinquency and criminal acts,” Moore said. “We need more parents who discipline their children.”
An online article in The Advocate about Spears on Tuesday drew some 1,200 comments by that night, as well as at least one donation pledge from a stranger in Oakland, California.
Louis Villa, 83, called the paper asking where he could pay Spears’ $2,500 bail.
“I had a single parent, and hey, she had to discipline us. Yeah, I got hit by an ironing cord, but it made me a better person. It saved my life,” Villa said, adding he imagined Spears might be like his mother: a single black mom who might not have the support she needs.
"The 13-year-old, Spears eldest, had bleeding wounds, and her 12-year-old son received cuts that broke the skin, while the 10-year-old boy had a scratch to his hand, the report says."
Sorry, but "bleeding wounds" and "cuts that broke the skin" are not acceptable. I am a parent and I never laid a hand on my children to punish them. Not saying I wouldn't have if the circumstances warranted it. I don't know how I would have acted, just that I never needed to and for that I am grateful.
LmfaoChildren should be allowed to express themselves and decide what is right or wrong without the fear of corporal punishment from parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ
I dont think he is saying its a good thing but sometimes drawing blood is an unintended consequence.
your weird reactions
Ephrata, PA – A religious nutbag was arrested and jailed on Wednesday after he beat his wife with a wooden paddle when she refused to address him as “Sir” in front of their kids.
According to police, 55-year-old Dan Kopp routinely discipline his wife whenever she didn’t show him proper respect. Some of these corrective measures included taking his wife over his knee and spanking her with a wooden paddle or his hand.
In October 2012, the wife realized her life sucked and went to police to report the abuse. She told police her 6-foot-5, 230 pound husband beat her in front of the kids as a “means of disciplining her for disobedience to him for undermining his parenting.”
She even brought along proof of the abuse in the form of a video she recorded a month prior that showed him beating her in front of their young children for not saying “Yes Sir.” Before teaching her this lesson, he gives her a “count of three to comply.” He can also be heard threatening to “cast the demons out of her” the next time she disobeyed him.
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yea, that's way over the line. spanking, yea, ok, kinda get it, closed hand striking or inflicting wounds bad enough to bleed, no fucking way, that's abuse.
Spanking a 5 year old is one thing, spanking a teenager is another.
I DO think that IF used very sparingly spankings work.
BUT it's to late on these kids. they are already teens. At this point she failed teaching that theft is wrong.
no amount of spankings is going to help now.
Over the line, but better than a chest full of buckshot when they get caught by a homeowner.
I personally would have put these kids in jail, or whatever the legal punishment would be. But sometimes a kid needs a smack. Not necessarily saying make them bleed, but a face-smack is not unwarranted.
It just seems a little weird that a man would get arrested for physically assaulting his wife but not his minor children. Why are children the only people in America that it is legal to regularly assault physically?
I dont think he is saying its a good thing but sometimes drawing blood is an unintended consequence. Ive had the lasting red impression of 5 fingerss across my face from a smack. Or a bruise on skin.
My dad had grounded me and removed TV privileges. He put a timer on the TV electrical cord (an xmas lights timer) so while he was at work the TV wouldnt work. I merely removed the timer and plugged the TV in. Of course I was caught circumventing my punishment. Dad came home and flipped. He removed the coaxial cable from behind the TV and started to whip my bare ass with it. The sharp copper conductor in the center cut into my skin and made me bleed.
I don't have kids, but I can understand how spanking could be a useful tool, when used appropriately and sparingly.Don't agree. Sometimes controlled violence is an appropriate response to sufficiently bad behavior.
My 6 year old daughter exhibited not just misbehavior but real cruelty to my 4 year old son awhile back. Imagine knocking someone down and spitefully laughing at their cries of pain, and doing all this having not been provoked in the slightest.
How is that to be punished in a just manner? A stern talking-to, time-out, and/or denial of various things she wants or likes doesn't seem to cut it - in her mind (and more importantly in my son's mind) she got away with it.
In this case, she got smacked on the butt, amid other non-violent punishments.
Well, I stopped forging signatures on poorly-graded papers, and subsequently lying about it for one.
There are plenty of things I learned from it.
Same here. I laugh whenever someone calls it "abuse," or even alludes to it. My mom used to threaten to "break my face" (transliteration from Spanish) if I disrespected her and/or didn't do what she said. And she did! Once. Never happened again, because I wasn't a little shit head anymore.