Majority of society thinks abusing children is okay
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Cherryblossom
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Majority of society thinks abusing children is okay
I’ve been losing my mind the past couple years and I’ll never be the same again. I’m not sure if there’s many people from other countries on this site, but I’m from America where abusing children is literally a constitutional right. In 1977, a Supreme Court case called Ingraham V Wright made “corporal punishment” (which is really just a fancy word for abuse) a constitutional right in public schools. There are still 19 states in America where it’s legal for teachers to physically abuse children. This decision determined that hitting kids doesn’t fall under the eighth amendment, which protects people from cruel and unusual punishment. THIS IS INSANE because how in the hell is children being beat with belts, paddles and other objects not considered cruel?!!! I was beat by a belt by my dad. He used to pull my pants down and expose me so he could beat me. This is physical AND sexual abuse!!! But the majority of society treats me and other survivors of this sick abuse as “snowflakes”. Most of America is brainwashed to think that this sh*t is normal and I seriously feel like I’m living in some kind of simulation sometimes. How are people that stupid?? They really think that as long as a child isn’t severely injured, then it’s “discipline” and not abuse. It’s absolutely absurd! I constantly question my sanity daily and have to remind myself that these people are just severely brainwashed and I’m actually the sane one even though I have the minority opinion. Children don’t have HUMAN RIGHTS and I can’t go a day without thinking about it. I want to do something about it but I’m scared because so people who call this for what it is (child abuse being legal) will get bullied online. I’ve been bullied and degraded in comment sections online almost every time I try to say something about this and it’s usually under a TikTok or video of someone JOKING about beating kids with belts like it’s just another day for them!! I hope I get responses on this post because I’m curious to see if anyone on this site is also delusional and thinks beating kids is “discipline”. I will immediately leave this site if majority of you try push your brainwashing onto me like everywhere else online. Even if I was the one and only person in the entire world to see it this way, I don’t care, I will never change. I know I’m right.
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Josco
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Re: Majority of society thinks abusing children is okay
I'm from the UK, and have posted on corporal punishment and the impact it had - still has - on me.
When i was a child in 1970s corporal punishment, or reasonable chastisement as it was legally called, was permitted. It was used commonly in schools - many schools used the cane, this legally stopped in the late 80s, but it was quite normal in 70s. My middle school had the cane, so 8 to 12 year old boys would bend over a chair for a couple of sharp strokes whilst the girls would hold their hand out, palm up.
In homes corporal punishment was common too and you would commonly hear parents threaten their children and smack them in shops or other public places so it wasn't hidden at all. Parents often used belts and slippers to punish their children. This was allowed until the early 2000s (Blair Government) and subsequently restricted, but in England parents can still smack a child with their hand so long as it doesn't cause a lasting mark. Now in 2024 there are suggestions it will be completely stopped, as it has been in Scotland.
My Mum didn't use a slipper, she used a Scholl exercise sandal. You can still buy them, horrible things. After a talking to she'd tell me 'you need to be punished' or 'you need to feel my Scholl'. She would put out a kitchen chair and tell me to lower my trousers and underpants and bend over. She hit me with the sandal and I had to keep still for that. It hurt, it left marks. My mother was single mother - all I had was her, and instead of being the caring mother she usually was she'd be doing her best to inflict pain. Being made to expose my buttocks, bend over, and keep still is deeply disturbing. It is not surprising it has left scars, that I can't get it out of my head. It damaged the relationship with my mother, it enabled some other abuse because I couldn't be honest with her and that kind of treatment had long lasting negative impact in many ways.
As soon as stopping smacking altogther is mentioned many people my age or older will start saying how it did them no harm, how society would be better off with discipline including smacking, siippering, belting or caning. I' m with 'snowflakes' on this one.
When i was a child in 1970s corporal punishment, or reasonable chastisement as it was legally called, was permitted. It was used commonly in schools - many schools used the cane, this legally stopped in the late 80s, but it was quite normal in 70s. My middle school had the cane, so 8 to 12 year old boys would bend over a chair for a couple of sharp strokes whilst the girls would hold their hand out, palm up.
In homes corporal punishment was common too and you would commonly hear parents threaten their children and smack them in shops or other public places so it wasn't hidden at all. Parents often used belts and slippers to punish their children. This was allowed until the early 2000s (Blair Government) and subsequently restricted, but in England parents can still smack a child with their hand so long as it doesn't cause a lasting mark. Now in 2024 there are suggestions it will be completely stopped, as it has been in Scotland.
My Mum didn't use a slipper, she used a Scholl exercise sandal. You can still buy them, horrible things. After a talking to she'd tell me 'you need to be punished' or 'you need to feel my Scholl'. She would put out a kitchen chair and tell me to lower my trousers and underpants and bend over. She hit me with the sandal and I had to keep still for that. It hurt, it left marks. My mother was single mother - all I had was her, and instead of being the caring mother she usually was she'd be doing her best to inflict pain. Being made to expose my buttocks, bend over, and keep still is deeply disturbing. It is not surprising it has left scars, that I can't get it out of my head. It damaged the relationship with my mother, it enabled some other abuse because I couldn't be honest with her and that kind of treatment had long lasting negative impact in many ways.
As soon as stopping smacking altogther is mentioned many people my age or older will start saying how it did them no harm, how society would be better off with discipline including smacking, siippering, belting or caning. I' m with 'snowflakes' on this one.