Ok I didn't read the post above me or the conversation a few pages back but I'll put in my two cents. I come from a black family and beatings are common. If you do not beat your child it is viewed at spoiling the child, as most of the families are christian and read the bible for structure and guidance. Spare the rod and spoil the child is a scripture that I have never read but have had quoted to me many times before. It is fine to spank your child with a belt if say, they steal something from the store. But lots of times a parent takes it too far, they are mad and they pull out an extension cord. Or they take it farther and do it with their fists. I laugh when a child is babied because they did something wrong and is spanked, but if it is something like a child being annoying and they are kicked is taking it too far. Like the Adrian Peterson incident, he beat his child as a disciplinary action. I have been beat before and many times I have come back with bruises and sometimes even small cuts. But I have never not liked my parents, eventually I learned not to do certain things and the beatings stopped simple as that. So I guess my point is that beatings are fine, within reason. If its simply disciplinary so that the child won't do it again that is fine. But if a kid is clapping and the parent says stop, then the parent stomps their damn face. Then it is a serious problem.
Originally Posted by
Bulletron
What I hate most about child beatings is that many parents use it as a means of venting out anger as opposed to teaching their kids a lesson.
This is where beating a child goes wrong. I ended up seriously hating my mom for a very long time because after my dad left she started getting angry with herself and her life. She was usually a stay at home mom and didn't work alot, after he left and she had to work he became easily irritable and beat us almost everything. and she did it to vent her anger. My dad is still in my life but really I want my mom to leave now, I still love her, just not when she's mad.
Sorry for any grammical errors, I wrote this in a very short time.