People with strict parents: How often do you get beat?

mathyone
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 05:49:15 +0000

Apparently it’s legal to spank kids in every state, and most parents support that. Oklahoma permits parents to hit their kids with a switch as long as they don’t use more than “ordinary force”. You know, the force everyone uses when they hit their kids with switches. Do you all think that if everyone in this country thought it was not ok to hit kids that lawmakers would be sitting around saying, well, how hard can they use a switch? And what about a fist, is that ok? (Yes, in some places).

Op, if you are getting significant bruising, that probably does constitute abuse and you might be able to get yourself out of that house if you report it but no guarantees you would like the alternative arrangement better. That said, and please don’t think I am suggesting that beating you like that is ok, you do seem to admit that you are provoking it with your behavior. Perhaps you should make a big effort to stop forgetting your homework and stop doing whatever “much bigger stuff” tends to bring on these attacks. I am not blaming you. They are the ones with the problem. But unless you want to leave home before you graduate from high school it seems worth trying to meet all reasonable expectations they have to make the situation as tolerable as it can be.