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Originally Posted by greencreeper
Hmmmm. So a kid is screaming blue murder and having a right tantrum on the bus, right at the back of your head. And no one here would entertain thoughts of throttling the little *******? That level of violence against a kid is unacceptable, sure, but few kids these days are angels.
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You expect the parent to discipline the child.
And this is the problem, what constitutes discipline and what constitutes abuse.
Clearly this man was going over the top and if he's prepared to bray the kid like that in public then god knows what he would do behind closed doors.
But you can't put every parent in the same category, sometimes it is appropriate to discipline a child by smacking them. You cannot always reason with a 3/4/5 year old. Sometimes the best quickest way to convey the message that they have done wrong and should not do that again is short sharp smack. Doing this is not abuse, in fact it is in the best interests of the child.
It is wrong that the government is taking away parental rights/ and responsibilities.
Also child abuse is not always physical but very often verbal and mental. I'd mush rather see a child disciplined by a quick slap to the bum and then hear some loutish teenage mother scream abuse at her child (something I see all to often, and usually at supermarket checkouts for some reason)