Early this morning I found a disheartening story in my Facebook feed. The title was "Mom Bonds Out of Jail". A single Mother of six was called by a neighbor when the neighbor saw her sons and friends going into her home with bags of undetermined items. The Mother drove quickly to her home to find her sons and their friends trying to run away from her by diving out of windows and running out the door. She knew what they had done and instinctively she grabbed a belt to discipline her children. This act of discipline landed her in jail?
This is a bunch of "cow pies"! If this is breaking the law, 99% of the relatives I have should have had a record by now and ALL of us would have had stints in CPS (Child Protective Services). The government determined that the physical discipline of a child is now felony child abuse. And you wonder why we have a massive amount of miscreants in the community? THIS is why! You've taken away disciplinary power from the parents AND the teachers. The two groups of adults that a child spends most of their time with until the age of 18 and what do you get? Child-size master manipulators and miscreants destined for incarceration.
Discipline seen as abuse seemed to have emerged from the writings of Dr. Benjamin Spock. How one could be seen as an expert in parenting without having any children is beyond me and why people would instantly take his some of his writings as "law" in the parenting world is beyond me. Am I the only one that has seen a constant decline and degradation of parental discipline since the 1970's? Does anyone see the negative impact and progression this has had on our society? Does anyone care? Hello??? Am I by myself on this?
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