Comments | blackwylf: "take it like a man" my ass

blackwylf

"take it like a man" my ass

Dec 08, 2007 18:49

I am so incredibly appalled and disgusted as to feel sick. I'm just sitting on the front porch, reading and enjoying the nice weather when one of the kids across the street is escorted out to their porch and promptly spanked so loudly it f*cking ECHOED down the street. Keep in mind that this little one is at most three or four years old. And every ( Read more... )

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i know the feeling missourimarmot December 9 2007, 02:04:47 UTC

Maybe it's not child abuse as the law defines it, but abuse it is, regardless.

I'm sorry you had to experience this. And I identify with your search for tact. I recently shared a wall with a mother who would yell at her baby for crying -- a child surely less than two years old. But I never got up the nerve to go next door and volunteer to babysit, anything, so the child could be spared a little trauma.

Maybe I'm just projecting, but this stuff really gets to me. I know what it's like to be an emotional child and not have those emotions validated. I used to be spanked with a belt, and made to put my nose in the corner. And I know my parents loved me very much -- still do, in fact -- but I know that the way they handled discipline is something I'm still dealing with many year later.

missourimarmot December 9 2007, 02:26:13 UTC

Here's another gem: "Do you want me to *give* you something to cry about?"

fledchen December 9 2007, 03:29:10 UTC

Sounds like they subscribe to the James Dobson School of Parenting. ::shudder::

tsiankiio December 9 2007, 18:00:05 UTC

I'd still call CPS. Seriously, this is abuse and its wrong and it drives me freaking crazy, and you can always leave an anonymous tip if you want. Especially since he took the kid outside to do it, to add humiliation on top of pain.

Also, I'm mailing out your pendant (and some earrings I made to match it for you) tomorrow morning, so they should be there soon!

masterhibb December 9 2007, 20:33:30 UTC

In response to the comment above, I'm going to have to step in and recommend you do NOT call CPS. If there is any doubt in your mind it was abuse, then you don't want the law involved. I have no direct experience with CPS, but I've seen family law at work before, and it is completely out of control. There's really no subtlety involved in family law--especially once children are involved--and there times even a sympathetic judge is unable to intervene in the name of common sense because his hands are tied by the law ( ... )