Legal Ways of Hurting Children and Teens

[SoulRiser]

Legal Ways of Hurting Children and Teens
Someone actually made a list...

[Darthmat]

[Alucard483]

Well aty least we know what slave has been up to...

[Agnapostate]

Sadly, plenty of parents do things on that list all the time.

[another brick in the wall]

wolf you havent met my parents ive been treated to at least 95 percent of that list it isnt as rare as you think unfortunatly

[Vatman]

I was going to attempt to make some sort of witty pun involving a hen and at least a dozen egg's....but spellcow is advertising a free kabbalah personality test....so .....yea....sorry......

[akdonn]

I read that and just started crying; how can parents be so mean?

We need fewer parents in this world!

[akdonn]

Wolf, I think you have his number...

[Avenger]

i'm one lucky bastard i have never been grounded or had stuff taken away from me,my parents have never done anything that is on that list except maybe 1 or 2 things but they don't do it all the time,instead usually my parents talk to me rather than ground me.i hate when parents ground their kids from everything that would drive me insane if my parents did that,and when parents do this it drives the child away from them more.

[another brick in the wall]

im far from a dramatic person wolf and i dont complain about shit like that like all the rich spoiled emo kids wah mommy doesn't love me cause she didn't buy me another sidekick I'm going to run away. dont go judging me i mean if you knew me personnaly for most of my life then i would see how its fit to say that

[Rebelnerd]

akdonn Wrote:Wolf, I think you have his number...

yeah, i know. gotta love these sissy kids nowadays, griping about boot camps. all they do is drug, kidnap, and torture a few of them and they get all whiny! come on you little brats, it's just a few punches to the gut and electric shocks, then you get a nice long rest in solitary confinement with thorazine injections to calm you down. what's to complain about?

[another brick in the wall]

lmao^^^^ im not gonna fight over the internet cause apparently im a whiny dramatic kid

[Agnapostate]

I think we need to resist domestic violence against minors by their parents a bit more definitively.

[Trekkie_Aspie]

Heh, I was grounded like once or twice in my entire life and I'm 17. My parents had a point both times.

[janesa]

I've actually had quite a few of those things done to me (and my sister) by my family. No internet, tv, playing outdoors, regulated tv and internet viewing, threats/screaming, spankings with belts or branches from trees, etc.

[SoulRiser]

Ouch...
How often does that happen?

[janesa]

Oh it doesn't happen anymore, they stopped the spankings when I was around 12. Everything else continued to happen until I was 18. Take that back my family still threatens me when I do something deemed "wrong" to them. You know sometimes, we would all sit around and talk about the punishments we all would get growning up, how we (my sister, I, my cousins) can't complain cuz the previous generation had it worse, which is true.

[liq3]

janesa Wrote:Oh it doesn't happen anymore, they stopped the spankings when I was around 12. Everything else continued to happen until I was 18. Take that back my family still threatens me when I do something deemed "wrong" to them. You know sometimes, we would all sit around and talk about the punishments we all would get growning up, how we (my sister, I, my cousins) can't complain cuz the previous generation had it worse, which is true.

You can complain. I wouldn't bother tho...

[SoulRiser]

Just 'cause the previous generation had it worse, doesn't mean it's all okay now. Humanity has come a long way, but there's still a long way left to go... for some people more than for others.

[NiteRaidah]

Ugh. That wasn't a fun article to read.

What a load of crap. Sure the kids may be obedient due to the consequences, but there's always the chance that they might be a little messed up in later life because of this, or they may disobey and start doing worse things as a form of rebellion.

[Chaotic_Punk]

Stopping a child from going out intot he big wide world isn't going to solve anything. It's just going to turn them into a brat, parents snooping through their kids stuff is a complete invasion of privacy, it's wrong and should be illegal. Insulting them is a nother form of mental abuse, which is illegal.

[SoulRiser]

It's not illegal at all. If you were a legal adult, you could sue people who insult you, but people under 18 can't do that (as far as I know).

[John Tuttle]

despite asian stereotypes (im indian) my parents are pretty cool. my dad sometimes gets mad about grades, like if i get a b, but he has high-blood pressure. anyways, he doesn't ground me or hutrt me or anything, he just takes a hour to relieve his anger and is then fine.

[Chaotic_Punk]

I think limiting a child's life to the basics, on what adults think their children should need in their lives is shocking.
By not letting a child experiment in the big wide world, in later life the child will resent it's parents on most grounds.

Snooping to make sure your child is safe is one thing, but not letting them have a life is disgusting. It shouldn't be alowed, but yet some parents do snoop through their childrens things. What ever happened to privacy?

[thewake]

It never happened to me.
Until I got Linux. My parents do not know how the Hell to operate it, and I never read the instruction but I use it just fine.

[AWOL]

Quote:

Quote:steve says:
do u think it should be legal for parents to do that?
steve says:
im making a list of legal ways parents hurt teens
SJ says:
nope
steve says:
if u were talking to a judge and he said why shouldnt it be legal what would u say?
SJ says:
i would say ..... erm ..... i dont think parents have the right to take things that are precious away from there children and i know that most parents care about their children but sometimes they need to give them some room and stop controlling them and let them go


Now what can happen when the Internet is taken away as punishment?

For some suicidal teens it is their lifeline. They use it to get emotional support. For others it is a place for them to learn about many things that are not taught in school. It is obviously a tremendous learning resource, so when this is taken away the teens are denied an opportunity to educate themselves.

One day I would like to see a law which makes this kind of punishment illegal around the world. The Internet is uniting young people worldwide, it is educating and informing them, it is helping save lives. This kind of arbitrary punishment does nothing to develop a young person. It is simply a convenient way of hurting a teen and manipulating them into obedience by reminding them who's the boss.

The articles bad but the person who is making it is nice.