Parental Abuse
Experts say a growing number of parents are experiencing violence at the hands of their children, while the numbers are growing its the most under reported type of domestic abuse. We know many people that have or is currently living in fear of their child or children but they don’t talk about it or report the incident or incidents out of fear or embarrassment.
Im not going to down play the incident that took place in my house, Im calling it as defined; Assault is a Verb defined as to make a physical attack on, the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such action is both a crime and a tort and therefore, may result in criminal prosecution civil liability or both as defined by Webster. Now that we have that definition out of the way, when did it become ok for teenagers or young adults to attack their parents? I was punched in the face and choked recently by my youngest child. She thought it was ok to put her hands on me, I’ve never put my hands on her based on the rules of children’s services, now I wanted to but didn’t. I’m an old school parent, that live by the old school parent rules (not saying that’s the right way). So here we are today, Do I press charges or let it walk. In my opinion, being physically disabled from an assault and attempted robbery a little over 8 years ago that left me with 7 surgeries, I’m definitely pressing charges because if you tried it once the gates are now open. No matter where we go in life rules are in place, so the answer should never be violence. We won’t like what our superiors say in the workplace so we lash out physically, ( yes there are always two sides to a story, but physically responding is never the answer). Do we throw God’s commandments out the door and strike out physically every time someone does or says something we don’t like. Does it make me a bad mom for calling 911? How would you handle this situation? Was I wrong to defend my disabled self? When does it stop and how did we get to the point that it is ok to attack your Parent, Adoptive Parent, Foster Parent or Care Giver?
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