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Do you intervene when you observe a parent being abusive, or in any way harsh, to their kids?
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Shale
Cheaps
Chris
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When you witness parents being abusive
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Cheaps- ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
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I've never been in a situation where I've seen a parent being that abusive to where I'd feel the need to intervene. Either way, I'd stay out of it.
Shale- ...is a Chamber Royal.
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I had a neighbor in my apartment complex that loudly berated her pre-teen son all the time. I finally called the anonymous Abuse Hotline and they sent an investigator. She cleaned up her act and the yelling was not constant.
She was in the neighborhood for years after I moved to a different apt. She would stop and chat as former neighbors and she didn't have a clue that I was the guy who dropped the quarter on her.
She was in the neighborhood for years after I moved to a different apt. She would stop and chat as former neighbors and she didn't have a clue that I was the guy who dropped the quarter on her.
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I never really been in that situation. I have heard rumors that so and so was beating their child, but didn't actually see anything. The most I've seen is parents being "harsh," but that's not really enough....nor is it my business, because "harsh" usually meant strict.
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No. And I don't consider spanking a bad thing, so that by itself will not make me change into Mighty Mouse.
I did witness one incredible situation in San Francisco once. I was leaving the zoo, and noticed an angry woman yelling to "behave or I'm givin' you an ass-whoopin'!" I turned around and saw elder grandparents with several small children, grandma pushing a stroller and carrying a belt. It was incredible.
We all boarded the streetcar, and this time I noticed different sounds from grandma, and when I turned around she was giving one granddaughter a nice back massage. The kid looked very content . . . a radically different, contradictory visions from what I'd seen minutes earlier.
I did witness one incredible situation in San Francisco once. I was leaving the zoo, and noticed an angry woman yelling to "behave or I'm givin' you an ass-whoopin'!" I turned around and saw elder grandparents with several small children, grandma pushing a stroller and carrying a belt. It was incredible.
We all boarded the streetcar, and this time I noticed different sounds from grandma, and when I turned around she was giving one granddaughter a nice back massage. The kid looked very content . . . a radically different, contradictory visions from what I'd seen minutes earlier.
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Depends. I might say something if I know the parent like that or depending on what it is....but unless they were beating them into the ground, literally, then I stay out of it. Not my kids.
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I never butt in but I hate seeing parents mistreating their kids and the expression on my face at it is a disgusted one. Really I never saw a kid be savagely beat by their parents so I never had the occasion to step in but I would.
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