Adrian Peterson - Child Abuse?

[Purplelady1040]

You entitled to your opinions, but I don't want to hear you stating parents need to discipline their children to keep them from becoming social misfits.

Time outs, grounding, and privilege removal does absolutely nothing to correct acts of misbehavior deserving of corporal punishment. Nothing. . .

And in ten years after this case is decided, when there are millions of children that are wards of the states, and their parents incarcerated, and funding to care for them is bleeding the revenue stream of these states dry, what will you say then?

The fact is, I am not alone in feeling that Peterson was within his parental rights to discipline his child. I've been switched a lot worse than that child was, and I never repeated the behaviors that led to those acts of punishment. And yes, I was right around the same age as his child was when I began receiving those punishments.

I agree that discipline should be done. I just don't agree with him hitting his child on a scrotum. I got my share of spankings and I give my share of spankings to my children but I don't spank them when I am angry or mad. I don't do the time out's or the groundings or taking away things because I know they don't work. PH, I would hope that your parents never hit you in your scrotum out of anger and mad at you.

[Purplelady1040]

  I don't know how you were raised and I don't care.   If we had the bleeding hearts back when I was a child my mother and all the kids I knew mothers would have been put in jail.  For she carried a big stick.  But I know she love us and that was the only way she knew how to raise kids.  For she was treated in worse ways than us.

  You bleeding hearts think that when as person makes a mistake that person should lose everything especially his or her livelyhood.  I can't believe that you are a perfect mother in every way.  Give us a break.     

I never said I was a perfect mother but I am betting your mother never hit you in the scrotum when she was disciplining you. I do spank my kids but not when I am mad or in anger at them. By the way, considering that he should have made millions, he should have had plenty of money saved up and if he didn't that is his own fault.

[Purplelady1040]

By the way, instead of us arguing over the way he chose to discipline his child. Maybe we should talk about the fact that he has had (7) children by so many different women. One child died in 2013 by a boyfriend that he was not aware of the existence of the child until it was in the hospital and on life support. Now some of that is the woman's fault but you wonder how much support he even pays to those kids that he claims but is not a factor in their life at all.

[The Troll]

I never said I was a perfect mother but I am betting your mother never hit you in the scrotum when she was disciplining you.

  I was just lucky she didn't, when she was using anything she had in her hand it was just plain luck she didn't.   

[Purplelady1040]

  I was just lucky she didn't, when she was using anything she had in her hand it was just plain luck she didn't.   

Like I said, I have spanked my kids but never when mad, upset or angry at them and never have I hit our kids in the private parts. That was inflicting pain due to him being angry and mad and was not necessary. Discipline is necessary but not to that extent.