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Originally Posted by Slamjammer
>>I appreciate that you only have a screen full of text to go by. If I were reading more into the situation than is really there then I would have done so in many earlier situations in my life. Well before my current age of 63, I would have realized that there was something fundamentally wrong with my perception and would have taken steps to address exactly what that "something" was.<<
Maybe not. Perhaps it is "perception issues" which are at the root of your problems today. Maybe you could just realize that sometimes personalities clash, and we need to make adjustments to get along. In this case, a formal complaint to your employer may serve only as evidence of your inability to cope. Justification for a civil suit is light years away.
IMHO- just try to get along.
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The most common form of child abuse where I live is to "break" an infant in the same way a horse is broken in order to induce submissiveness, gain control, or simply to "teach it a lesson".
As the infant grows, interaction with the surface of the catastrophic wound leads to cries of "naughtiness" and the infliction of further righteous punishment.
At some point the child may decide to harden the surface of their accumulated repression, and in so doing, create a "psychological weapon" with which to inflict similar harm on others.
When such an individual reaches maturity and turns their attentions towards me, I assure you I most certainly do have grounds for a civil action.
I'm not surprised by the reception the original post has received. Abuse is still as popular and as legal with the greater part of the population as it ever was and there are relatively only a few of us who object to it (1):
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Phillip Schofield faced a barrage of criticism from This Morning viewers yesterday after he admitted he had left one of his daughters to cry in her room as a baby - as he sat outside the door with a glass of wine.
Phillip, 50, explained how his first born, Molly, just would not go off to sleep.
"Our first daughter wouldn't sleep," he said, "Eventually we had a barbecue and that night I said, 'I'm done with this.' So I sat on the landing with a glass of wine and let her cry."
The presenter went on to explain how Molly wouldn't settle for hours.
"She screamed for an hour, two hours. Eventually she went to sleep. It was like breaking a horse," he said.
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The scenario described is certainly capable of inducing trauma but hopefully Mr Schofield's self-satisfied statement of, "It was like breaking a horse" is incorrect - fingers crossed that the child survived without psychological injury.
What is the most common form of child abuse where you live? If you don't know, or are unable to say anything of equal credibility, then I shall ignore any further contributions that you make to this thread.
Robert Bartels
(1) As a newbie, I'm not allowed to use links yet. The Schofield quote is from the parentdish website and can be found by entering "Phillip Schofield says he left baby daughter to scream for hours" into Google.