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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (20499)	4/16/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If I was a cop, and I just dropped off a 14 year old boy who stole a car, I would look the other way as I got back in my sedan if the father was whipping the tar out of him. Then if the boy called the police and reported his father for child abuse, showing me some belt welts on his back. I would look real hard and say...."Well son, Can't say as I see much of a welt there at all. Guess you better listen to your father next time huh?" Yeah? And maybe he was screwed up enough to steal a car because his father was a brute. You complain constantly about Bill Clinton: okay, here's a guy who was beaten regularly in his formative years. Until he finally had the guts to hit back. And I have a friend who was beaten by his father. I don't know whether it did him any lasting harm, but once he left home he never went back. And so it did do him harm: he lost the affection he might have had for his father. There's no excuse for this sort of behavior on the part of adults. Teenage children can be disciplined in other ways.