Child Abuse vs. Spanking by Ruth Graham NFLs Adrian Peterson was suspended from the Minnesota Vikings, reversing an earlier decision to let the investigation proceed before making a judgment. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? The man has been judged as having abused his child for spanking him with a tree branch. In reality it was a switch - a flexible twig meant to sting the legs. My mother used them on my siblings and me. She made us go pick our own switch and if it wasnt strong enough then she would go choose one. If we were disrespectful we got a good switching. My parents believed in corporal punishment. It wasnt child abuse! When does the NFL and the corporate sponsors like Nike, get the right and authority to tell a man how to discipline his child? This is getting way out-of-bounds. If there was, indeed, child abuse (and there are those that think spanking is child abuse, I do not) then let it be determined. But the media has taken this and run with it so that a mans reputation and career are in the balance. The NFL player that knocked his now-wife out with a punch needs some anger management and she needs counseling. That was a clear case of abuse. And they dont need my 2 cents worth. But spanking your child is not in the same ball park. I spanked my children. I used a wooded spoon. My mother used a switch (tree branch), belt, shoe tree and once a brush - she hit my sister with the wrong side so my sister went to school with red bumps on her legs like measles! It was not child abuse! We were being disciplined for disrespect, lying. We didnt see it as or feel it as abuse but parental love. Now before you jump all over me Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived said, He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:20:45 +0000
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