Hitting your child.
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Two Ron Toe 9,909 Posts
I got the belt when I was a kid. I'm not actually pissed at getting it at all.
That said. If you do shit like this. You need to be put away...
This is a Texas judge.
Warning - NSFW
Her crime. Going on the computer.
Shit like this makes me very angry.
That said. If you do shit like this. You need to be put away...
This is a Texas judge.
Warning - NSFW
Her crime. Going on the computer.
Shit like this makes me very angry.
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That said, I would never hit my child ever.
That video makes me extremely angry. The fact that the guy is a family court judge blows it even more so.
"This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech.
Sorry about that."
Hate Speech?
Updated link above.
I got spanked plenty, but never like that. It was usually with the back of a house slipper. However, I was a well-behaved kid and do harbor some resentment that I was spanked just because my mom couldn't think of any other way to deal with us.
People like that are not fit to be parents.
It usually stems from your parent's Plan-B approach and also what is acceptable in your local cultural experience. The judge has probably been battered by his pop all his infant life. I have friends from Africa and India and their folks weren't into resolving things by hand-wringing. And their fams are tight as.
Irrespective of the debate this is sure to spark over issues of corporal punishment, this guy's career is a wrap.
"Though the video was uploaded on October 27, it wasn't until today that it began to receive attention???thanks to the popular link-sharing site Reddit, where a poster identifying herself as Hillary Adams shared it (with the title "Family law judge beats own daughter for using the internet, please spread"), writing that she'd decided to post the video (which she'd been "holding onto... until the right time") after receiving "a barrage of harassment" from her father over the phone.
Posting to Reddit was the right move. The site, which has a strong protective streak, quickly sprung into action. Posters, encouraging others to call and write, provided links and phone numbers to news outlets, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct???and to the judge's place of work. As is not uncommon in situations like this, the official Aransas County website is down as of this post, likely thanks to heavy traffic from Reddit."
gawker article
that didn't take long...
I agree, I bet his cell phone has been blowing up though.
I'm wondering if the fact that this happened 7 years ago will prevent that from happening.
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/CR/1/12/12.01
More surprising (and sickening) is how many of us condone beating children.
I think your definition of 'beating' might differ from some others here.
I received the occasional physical reprimand (which doesn't bother me), but I was never beaten.
She's a member on Reddit. She say's that she just couldn't take the abuse any longer and finally decided to show her father for the person he actually is.
I'm betting that even if he doesn't go to jail, he will probably lose his job. But more important, he will receive his karma for life now.
Or he will become a hero for having the courage to discipline his daughter and will go on all the talk shows and write a best selling book and be appointed by President Perry to the federal court.
Disturbing attempt at sarcasm?
Anyway,whether or not the statute of limitations thing prevents his prosecution, I hope everyone that asshole knows sees the video, kicks him out of the country club and never takes his calls again.
im definitely not in the "never lay a hand on your kids" camp, but there is a line separating parenting and humiliation/abuse that no one should even get anywhere close to.
i got the occasional spanking or slap. in middle school my dad would pluck me in the head when i said something ignorant. that shit stung! after while he'd just flash pluck formation and i'd know i was out of line. in high school i cursed my mom out and my pop came upstairs and punched me twice in the face. he apologized later but i'm glad he did it. i never cursed my mom out again. i dont think my folks were ever out of line with their "beatings".
my friend used to be real bent out of shape by the verbal bullying that youd see mothers do to their kids in public fairly regularly in philly. he told me each time he witnessed it he was going to walk up to the parent and say "shut up!" i told him to be prepared to get punched in the face
Yea - I have. It was ugly, but she stopped twisting his arm...for that moment anyway. It is a such a complicated situation. I can't stand by if I see a kid being hurt on purpose...but will they suffer for it twice as badly later on when they are out sight?
I ended up busting out into tears after I got off the bus - shit was stressful in all kinds of ways.
Growing up, I got slapped here and there and got the belt only once when I sauntered home from school after 7. I could tell how scared my parents were when they rolled up to me en route. They had been driving around looking for me for three hours....while I played in my friend's underground garage (shudder). I guess my parents couldn't find the words for their fear and didn't know what else to do to drive the message home.
I definitely don't resent it now as an adult, but were I to be a parent, I would not want to hit for discipline.