What's considered parental abuse? Is locking a child (at any age) outside in extreme heat/cold, for well over an hour...
61Locking a child outside in the cold is definitely parental abuse. For anyone to do such to a child , they most definitely need help to raise their child. I will not condemn them for being ignorant of the proper way to handle their problems but I will advise them to seek help before they do any more harm to the child.
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It was a hypothetical question. But Awender I see where you're going in the sense of if you only hear one side of an argument you tend to believe one thing.
To Whitney05; One side of an arguement has nothing to do with the behavior of any child and the disiplinary techniques used by the parents. Living in the 21st century, we have to be in a state of continuoss improvement of ourselves. Learning right and wrong is not always easy. With the consideration of the well-being of a child as the focus of this discussion, we must find the appropriate means of behavior modification to insure no physical or emotionsl harm comes to that child. It is a parental responsibility to learn and keep learning as the child grows and presents more difficult problems for the parents, (or parent) to deal with in such a fashion as to allow the child to grow into a healthy and wise adult.
Coz- I do agree i nthe sense that each child needs discipline in different ways. Not every technique will work the same for each child.
ANY PARENT THAT DOES THAT TO A CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO FACE CHILD ABUSE CHARGES ITS NOT RIGHT.
Yes it is, punish the child another way, or go to parenting classes because when child is locked out of their own home they feel a sense of not being wanted and thats horrible, specifically all the teens that run away from home, and the children that get lost from their parents.
Awender 4 years ago
What you have described could be considered abuse, but an investigation could prove that it was only an exagerated point of view from one side of an argument.
I'm not trying to down play the situation, as it definitely deserves to be looked into. And if it falls in to a pattern of situations where this is the norm then I would say that the parent has crossed the line into an abusive relationship with their child and needs help to get back to a loving relationship.