America is #1....in Child Abuse...

[Lightbeast]

Not good stuff America.

[skullpoker]

I'll just leave this here.

[Myst]

When people discuss the term "abused children", is it only abuse by adults? And is it only physical abuse that gets counted or also mental abuse?
Children can be abused by other children too. Bullying being a prime example.

This is what I miss in that article.

[Rok124]

I personally believe that America doesnt have too many morals like they used to, and people just now decide to do whatever they want without thinking


Selfishness has become a reality here

When people discuss the term "abused children", is it only abuse by adults? And is it only physical abuse that gets counted or also mental abuse?
Children can be abused by other children too. Bullying being a prime example.

This is what I miss in that article.

I agree with this

it would be odd to not consider bullying as a type of child abuse =/

[Milady]

And I'll leave this here.

Child abuse is not named as such simply because a child is involved. As it is defined, "child abuse" implies that there is harm being caused by the child's caregiver. Whilst bullying is a form of abuse, it is another matter entirely.

[Raype]

I personally believe that America doesnt have too many morals like they used to

Word. So many morals went out the window once institutional racism against minorities went out, domestic abuse started being followed up on, and physical discipline of children started being frowned upon.

[Tsukasa01]

So many morals went out the window once institutional racism against minorities went out, domestic abuse started being followed up on, and physical discipline of children started being frowned upon.

I hope you your being sarcastic ....otherwise you should try getting your head out of the gutter man .

[Raype]

I hope you your being sarcastic ....otherwise you should try getting your head out of the gutter man .

Not at all.

I completely believe that child abuse only got to be a problem once we started classifying beating our children for misbehaving as child abuse.

We never had this problem in the 70's.

[Tsukasa01]

So many morals went out the window once institutional racism against minorities went out

I was refering only to this part of your post .Saying that morals went down the drain once the ethnic majority stopped bashing the ethnic minority is quite a strech and makes me worry about your mental health.

As for beating your children mmm... I think the word "beating" makes it sound like the parent kicks the bloody s**t out of the kid, I rather refer to it as physical discipline and I'm in no way against that. I myself was spanked whenever I misbehaved and I'm in no way psychologically hurt, or hold a grudge against my parents.

[Slacker Magician]

I was refering only to this part of your post .Saying that morals went down the drain once the ethnic majority stopped bashing the ethnic minority is quite a strech and makes me worry about your mental health.

As for beating your children mmm... I think the word "beating" makes it sound like the parent kicks the bloody s**t out of the kid, I rather refer to it as physical discipline and I'm in no way against that. I myself was spanked whenever I misbehaved and I'm in no way psychologically hurt, or hold a grudge against my parents.

If you were wanting a legitimate source on this:
There has been a 331% increase in the US rate of child abuse and neglect reports from 1976 to 1996.
http://www.internationalcap.org/abuse_faq.html

[Englebert3rd]

If you were wanting a legitimate source on this:
There has been a 331% increase in the US rate of child abuse and neglect reports from 1976 to 1996.
http://www.internationalcap.org/abuse_faq.html

Now, neglect you can't really exaggerate. Abuse can be, however, probably some over-sensitive people reported the parents while spanking the child.
What is worse though abuse or neglect? I think both are at the same level. Both disgusting.

[Slacker Magician]

Now, neglect you can't really exaggerate. Abuse can be, however, probably some over-sensitive people reported the parents while spanking the child.
What is worse though abuse or neglect? I think both are at the same level. Both disgusting.

Probably.

[Milady]

There are other reasons why the percentage may have increased. For example, health care providers are required by law to report any suspected child abuse to the appropriate authorities for investigation. I don't know when that was mandated, but I'd be willing to guess it was probably after 1976. And as speculated above, people are definitely tending to err on the side of caution, as that source goes on to say that about a third of those reports are considered substantiated.

[JKDarkside]

Word. So many morals went out the window once institutional racism against minorities went out, domestic abuse started being followed up on, and physical discipline of children started being frowned upon.

They should be mining my gold. LEGALLY. I AM WHITE I DEMAND EVERYTHING.

Also, does getting spanked for knocking shit down in public count as child abuse? Cause I'm just dandy with that. I want parents to do that, spanking is a great punishment in extreme cases. I worked just fine on me.

[negles]

Hey, we need licenses for other animals, so why not children?

Besides, I'm all for somebody telling the majority of people they can't breed and being able to enforce it.

Because unfortunately abortion is too much of an issue here in the US. if a person accidently gets pregnant under this law they'd have to get it aborted.

I was refering only to this part of your post .Saying that morals went down the drain once the ethnic majority stopped bashing the ethnic minority is quite a strech and makes me worry about your mental health.

As for beating your children mmm... I think the word "beating" makes it sound like the parent kicks the bloody s**t out of the kid, I rather refer to it as physical discipline and I'm in no way against that. I myself was spanked whenever I misbehaved and I'm in no way psychologically hurt, or hold a grudge against my parents.

And some people do kick the s**t out of their kids as punishment. its a horrible unmoral country i believe