child abuse!

I wish every parent was responsible for their childrens health - anything where injuries later cause arthritis, or other physical difficulties with functioning.

The mental torment of physical, emotional and verbal abuse that requires therapy for adult children, in order to help them function and learn what is impossible in an abusive home - within reason - until that child is grown (30 years), like they have now for reporting sexual abuse, should be the responsibility of the abuser to pay for in full.

If parents knew their moments of anger and frustration taken out on their child would be a financial responsibility for years to come, I personally feel child abuse would go down in the families that are working, literate and trackable.

Imagine parents having to pay for therapy for years, and pain management, and if they really scarred their kids even more, surgeries, etc. I think that is justice.

This is a way to make people think before they raised a hand to little children in their obedient care.

It's a dream of mine to make the reasonable part of this a reality.

Maybe someday, society will discourage it altogether through a not tolerance advocacy.
Kripes, they fight an imagined war on drugs, why not a child abuser.

Right now, realizing child abuse and verbalizing it to the family, when you are safely distanced, is helpful to stopping the cycle of abuse in your own life.

If it goes unoticed, or rationalized, it can repeat in families where the adults were abused kids themselves.

No, no no - there is no reason to harm a child because they are in your care ... period.

peace and comfort,
nightbird

physical abuse by parents is so common, it's scary.

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