Adrian Peterson Child Abuse? Charles Barkley's Comments!
You have to make sure everyone is
on the same page! Here's where terms are different to each person. When you say
beating are they hearing spanking? When I say spanking are you hearing beating?
When entering this discussion I think each party has to agree to what is a
spanking and what a beating is! For example: a spanking could be a swat on the
bottom of a fully clothed and padded little kid when you may have to get their
attention! Like stay out of the street or don't touch hot stuff! A beating is
when you whip a child with an object or even your hands that causes bodily
harm! Such as sever bruising or open wounds! Then there is intent!? Did the person really
intend to do bodily harm? After looking at the Peterson pictures you could put
this into the category of a beating! If in his world the way he was raised that
is ok then he needs counseling! Not jail! I can relate because I came from a
world of corporal punishment when I was a child. In today’s world what my
father did to me was a beating! Why, because it falls into the category of
causing bodily harm with intent! He had what I recall as a straight razor belt.
That’s what use to hang from the barber’s chairs back in the day when they
needed to sharpen their straight razors! He would hall this thing out and beat
me until I bled! He didn’t beat any of my siblings this way and when I mention
this they don’t believe me. That’s because they were never around when it
happened! Do I hate my father? No, that’s what he thought was necessary because
I have to admit I was a very bad kid! The only person in the whole world that I
feared was my father, no one else! Even the Nun’s at my Catholic School in Cincinnati
called St. Theresa could beat you with a paddle with your parents’ permission!
Sister Mary Luke, who was built like a linebacker, had a paddle in her office
with holes drilled through the top so it went through the air faster! I was
also beaten with this thing a time or 2! And yes it left some nasty bruises! I never beat my children, but I did swat them
on their bottoms occasionally when they needed it! Once when my oldest daughter
was very young she did something that made me very angry and I took after her
with my belt! When she turned and looked at me with such fear in her eyes I
almost died! That was the last time I even thought about that! In closing I
think spanking a child is ok but beating a child is not! In this case, did he
go too far? Probably! Did he intend to make him bleed? Only he knows! As far as Charles Barley’s comments, here again
I think he probably meant spanking and everyone was hearing beating! That’s my opinion!
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