situameet
Message from: Sandra B
About: grocery store/mom hitting child
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:23:54 -0400 (EDT)
I have to make a comment
on what I find to be this
ridiculous hysteria on the part of some Americans
about how children are disciplined. The woman
slapped the child. She did not make a fist and punch
the child, she did not use the child to hammer in a nail.
No, mothers in the entire rest of the world does not go
around abusing their children. I am incredibly annoyed at the
implication that when a child is corrected in this manner
it constitutes a felony. Keep in mind that this kind of
hysteria caused an entire family running a Day Care Center
in America to be sentenced to prison because of
unsubstantiated accusations. Do you realise that this is
a very recent development in American history? Watch
American films from the 40's and 50's. At that time the
idea of boxing a child's ears did not cause anyone to have
a hemorrhage. Please keep in mind there is a difference
between correcting an unruly child and chaining a child to a
radiator (a case in New York City).
Incidentally, there were so many people heartily disapproved
of the mother's actions yet they did not act. A poisonous
glare was as far as some people got. Why?
P.S. I am from Jamaica. No, Jamaican mothers are not child
abusers.