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- ALyken, on 04/07/2008, -14/+208Haven't they got REAL crimes to solve?
- oRocketSurgeryo, on 04/07/2008, -37/+226This is disgusting. Parents should be entitled to physically punishing their children when they are acting bad. This shapes a child into an adult that understands the difference of right and wrong. These days I see kids that aren't spanked and it is very disturbing. They talk back to their elders, have no respect for anything, and are completely selfish. And what is wrong with a little punishment? There was nothing wrong with a last few generations that were spanked. This is turning more and more into a police state...As long as the parent is not abusing the child, they should be left alone. I would really hate to see what would happen to this world without child punishment.
- Whoopteedoo, on 04/07/2008, -19/+152This is incredible. What has happened to your country?
- fuckingusername, on 04/07/2008, -26/+145kids today are Phucked , since you can't give them a good crack in the ass, they just say your kid has ADD take a few of these call me in the morning , They have no morals anymore.
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DIGG NOT ***** SAVED, PLEASE RELOAD THE ***** PAGE AND TRY AGAIN! - h0ser, on 04/07/2008, -19/+106Parent's should be able to smack their children. Many children need it. Most children don't know what is right and wrong, so they do whatever they want. If there isn't a parent their to smack their ass when they get too close to the fire, they are gonna get burnt. Just telling the child NO isn't enough. Some people think you can take away your childs toys and stuff like that, but if the child has no toys then that logic will never work.
You shouldn't punch you kid in the face, but a smack in the ass will do him good. - inactive, on 04/07/2008, -8/+88Guy doesn't deserve a real mother. Let the State listen to his baby tantrums.
- mentallyinhell, on 04/07/2008, -11/+75I would have smacked him too. What kind of self righteous ***** would call the cops on a parent for discipline? So long as nobody's going overboard, a parent is allowed the disciplinary actions he or she feels are appropriate.
And she gave the kid a warning. More than I ever got. - saxreturns, on 04/07/2008, -17/+71Buried for being from the Daily Fail, purveyor of badly written half-truth and rumour.
- mrgeekguy, on 04/07/2008, -10/+60Don't call me guy, buddy!
- bluechips23, on 04/07/2008, -8/+49I know exactly what happened. Its called "wussism". People are being conditioned now these days to grow up to be a wuss and nothing else.
- AriaStar, on 04/07/2008, -11/+48When I was a child, we lived in an area where spanking children was a common punishment. When we moved during my early teen years to a state where spanking wasn't allowed, I was past the age of spanking, but my younger brother wasn't. Since spanking wasn't allowed, he had no incentive to not do something. Sending him to his room did no good. He'd walk out of the house instead. Take his consoles away and he'd go play at a friend's house. Take away his allowance and he'd steal what he wanted and if he was caught, my parents' legal option was to send him to his room, but again he'd walk out of the house.
See, what they were allowed to spank me, there was no just turning around walking out of the house.
Guess which one ended up the trouble-maker and which has a successful career. Yup, the one who couldn't be spanked ended up in a ton of trouble.
Now I'm not for spanking as a first line of punishment, but if it's an available option, then kids will listen. I wasn't spanked very often at all, maybe every three or four months, if that, but just knowing my parents could spank me if I didn't stop and listen was usually enough to keep me in line. - aaaleman, on 04/07/2008, -1/+38My mom slapped me once when I was a kid. Looking back on it, I completely deserved it.
- jedmed, on 04/07/2008, -9/+45In an ideal world populated by perfect people, physical punishment should not be tolerated. But in the real world sometimes it is necessary to sternly set limits and boundaries to behaviors that threaten the child's emotional or social well-being.
Our phobic attitude towards physical discipline is unhealthy. The result of which has created the current "system" which enables children to aggressively manipulate and blackmail their parents. This in a society that is so alienated that neighbors no longer speak with each other.
Yes, it is both possible and preferable never to hit your child. But the current solution is a far worse form of abuse. - gregoryan, on 04/07/2008, -2/+36and i suppose you're the genius. who can't read.
- MaTT2011, on 04/07/2008, -5/+36Do you really think this doesn't happen in America? HA!
- fajitamelt, on 04/07/2008, -3/+32The way I see it, the 16 year old son was an ass to make up stuff about his parents to get them arrested. He should be the one being smacked. What, their "happy family" was broken up when the parents got arrested? No, It was broken up even before that. If a smack make the kid make up all these other things about his parents, he must really not like them.
- ichbeineinrcg, on 04/07/2008, -1/+29The 16 year old should spend some time in the clink for making a false report, and his parents should allow it to happen.
- Conwaysb0718, on 04/07/2008, -0/+28at least now I know its not just me...
- galeninjapan, on 04/07/2008, -43/+69Socialism happened.
- oldhick, on 04/07/2008, -3/+25Because the government should stay out of your home.
- lonedust, on 04/07/2008, -6/+28You don't have to be so rude.
I do agree the problem is not socialism. It's simple bureaucracy and dimwits hiding behind "policies" instead of using common sense to make decisions. - inactive, on 04/07/2008, -1/+23I did not have to think twice about anything; I just buried you.
- TheAmbushAhead, on 04/07/2008, -7/+29I'm not your buddy, friend!
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -2/+23I'm not your friend, guy!
- carpespasm, on 04/07/2008, -3/+24source?
- Kerrigore, on 04/07/2008, -4/+22The thing is, you have no real basis for that judgement. How many cases are there like this compared to cases where children are saved from abusive homes? Of course the media is going to sensationalize cases like this, where as "Child saved from abusive homes by social service workers doing their job" probably won't even make the news.
The problem here was the children making false allegations. I believe the agency acted correctly insofar as the children were removed from the home until an assessment could be made as to the veracity of said claims. If this wasn't the policy, we could all be equally as morally outraged while hearing a story of how children were kept in an abusive home despite them informing social services of the abuse, and people would be saying the social services people should be fired for not following up and removing the children immediately, and so on.
Obviously it's easy in retrospect and from the perspective of the parents to see that there was no abuse and to demonize the social services, but how the hell were they to know? It's not like abusive parents wouldn't equally deny the charges. - inactive, on 04/07/2008, -5/+22 Why using a condom is sometimes good....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWkZ_StRjU0 - DeskFlyer, on 04/07/2008, -0/+17If I had a dime for every time I got slapped/spanked as a kid, I could have retired right out of high school.
- thecosmicpope, on 04/07/2008, -2/+18The Police are Government funded. They did not investigate the claims of the children before making arrests and accusations which ended up in her losing her job and there lives being destroyed.
Children lie. Good kids often tell "little white lies" or "fibs" or whatever. Clearly, if this kid is prepared to say "F**k off you cow" to his mother, he isn't a good kid. To take this kids lies as fact without any sort of investigation is just disgraceful. - HaloZero, on 04/07/2008, -1/+16This isn't about the fact that she was smacking her son. This was about the fact that her son told the police that he was being physically abused. The slap brought about the situation but it was the kid that made it really happen.
- rnwen2750, on 04/07/2008, -2/+17Remember, this is the Daily Mail and they are not known for telling complete truths.
- travis1982, on 04/07/2008, -8/+23have you ever watched some shows like super nanny? I would gladly take my belt off and whip them like cattle. Kids today have respect for nothing, I got beatings growing up..and I have 5 times more respect for my elders then punk narcissistic kids like those.
- AriaStar, on 04/07/2008, -1/+16The double-edge to that sword is that if my parents would have spanked him anyway, then we both would have been taken away. Basically they could lose one of us or both of us because the government refused to let them be parents. Families have gone to hell overall since the government decided its way is the one and only right way. Look at the state of public education, and now California is trying to outlaw homeschooling because Uncle Government knows best? What are we, property of the government? Wait, I know the answer to that.
- norman619, on 04/07/2008, -11/+25This is happening here in the US as well. I call it the pussification of our generation.
- Ajajadude, on 04/07/2008, -3/+17Apparently not.
- galeninjapan, on 04/07/2008, -4/+18These private entities are called families and you better believe I wish they have more control than the government.
- exomni, on 04/07/2008, -0/+14"Sometimes good"? I'd say the vast majority of the time, using a condom is very good.
- v1c1ous, on 04/07/2008, -1/+15although i agree a reasonable smack will set most children straight, where the hell did that lady get off saying the "other family represents what's wrong with today's parents" when her 16 year old and 11 year old are cursing her out? when your children have the balls to call the police on you, make up lies about you, and take a week to finally realize "hey you kinda did something wrong", then you seriously freaking failed as a parent.
- bradsh, on 04/07/2008, -9/+23private companies obviously wouldnt be able to do this by nature of them being private.
- mal1964, on 04/07/2008, -5/+18"This is turning more and more into a police state"
The Social Workers are the real problem most of the time - inactive, on 04/07/2008, -5/+18What I don't get is like, previous generations obviously slapped and spanked and so on. And yet... their kids built the world's best economy, protected the world from fascism on multiple occasions, liberated the surviving victims of the holocaust, etc. If mild corporal punishment was so bad... wouldn't we have collapsed after a few generations where every parent did it? If dodgeball and other games with winners and losers shattered our kids self esteem in some meaningful way, wouldn't we have failed to produce generation after generation of leaders?
Well now we can't spank our kids, can't do anything that might endanger their self-esteem... I'm kind of scared as to what the results might be. - lozzobear, on 04/07/2008, -0/+12"At Worcester police station, I was ordered to remove my hair grip and pins and had to place my Kurt Geiger shoes next to a pair of trainers belonging to a tramp."
An insight into the sort of person we're dealing with here. - TheCasablancan, on 04/07/2008, -4/+16I bet he has emo hair and wears girl pants.
- dagnome1984, on 04/07/2008, -4/+15Indeed the whole premise behind socialism is the use of more government control in order to get an intended result. People can't seem to grasp that it breeds bureaucracy by it's very nature in order to instill more control.
- exomni, on 04/07/2008, -6/+17If your kids are willing to "concoct a tissue of lies claiming you had starved and beaten them", then you have failed as a parent.
The "local family who to me represent many of the problems in society" she talks about undoubtedly did a much better job. - AriaStar, on 04/07/2008, -3/+14Kids are kids, and they tend to look for the easiest way to get what they want. When the government will side with the kids, no matter what, then the kids can do whatever the hell they want and a parent's attempt to keep a child in line will be seen as abuse, no matter what it is. The system is failing all of us when it demands that children all be raised in one specific way.
- MikeSD34, on 04/07/2008, -5/+16Children aren't 'evolved', like any other young animal they are ignorant of the world around them. It's their nature to be curious, and to push the boundaries. The purpose of this is to learn where the boundaries actually are. The problem is that they will keep pushing until you push back, and these days, it's supposedly wrong to push back using any sort of physical force. Children adapt, and the typical punishments have less and less meaning because as soon as they're over, that's it. There's no long lasting effect. A swift smack in the rear hurts long after it's done, and soon, even the threat of that is enough to make one think twice.
- Buelldozer, on 04/07/2008, -7/+17The prisons are filled with the children of parents who believe as you do.
- AriaStar, on 04/07/2008, -4/+14In a world populated by perfect people, children would never misbehave and need to be disciplined or punished. But the world isn't perfect.
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