My parents hit me, and I turned out to be ...

[elehhhhna]

another asshole who hits their kids.

Can they not hear the irony?

[cwydro]

1. Seen some scary posts on DU

in regard to this issue.

[Dirty Socialist]

2. My Mother Spanked Me Once

I gave her such a wounded puppy dog look she never spanked me again.

[elehhhhna]

3. we swatted the gals on their pampers on the rare occasions when they, like, ran out into traffic

once they look tae kwon do they could block so there would have been no point

my dad after a few beers slapped, hit, kicked and once put my head through the drywall.

dead for 36 years and I still have strong feelings about it

Stopped when he was diagnosed as terminal, meaning he fucking KNEW IT WAS WRONG

[JoeyT]

4. There's always the "Yeah, but that's abuse not spanking!" dodge, too.

Of course one of the reasons it's so hard to stop kids being abused is because so many people are so quick to defend hitting kids in the first place.

I'm sort of curious if there's anyone that was abused that weren't told that it was their parent's right to discipline them however they saw fit. I certainly heard it, and everyone I know that's acknowledged they were physically abused as a child heard it when they tried to get help. Help that never came for anyone I know because a parent should be allowed to discipline their child however they see fit.