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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
While you have compiled guidelines that are wise, commendable, and excellent, I would like to remind everybody that the freedom to raise children as one sees fit is a self-evident, unalienable right. If you observe and disapprove of another parents' methods, that is one thing, but when you encourage the state to step in, you have joined company with Karl Marx.
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Everyone has the right to raise their child as they see fit, mistakes and all, unless there is
real abuse occurring. If I stand idly by and allow a child to be abused under the umbrella of "parental rights", what kind of person does that make me? Their rights are more important than a child's safety and wellbeing?
If someone is causing actual physical injury to a child, the child should be protected. To be clear, I'm not calling "red marks" left from spanking "real abuse" (necessarily), although my FIL spanked my husband and his brother so hard one time that their backside and legs bled. I'd call
that abusive.
That's like saying a man has the right to treat his wife however he wishes, whether he's a jerk or not. Well, sure. Unless I happen to witness him punching her in the face. Then I'm going to call the police.
Abusing a child puts one in much worse company than Karl Marx. I wouldn't report someone just for spanking their child--even if they did it when the child didn't really need a spanking. That's bad judgment--not abuse. But if a child was actually being harmed, I most certainly would report them. Absolutely. Karl Marx or not.
The Law is for the Lawless.
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