Monday, November 8, 2010

FIGHT!!!



Describe your reaction to the video. Do you think the parents should be punished? Why or why not?

31 comments:

Unknown said...

I was surprised to see the video. The most surprising thing is that now that I think about it I can see things like this happening. In my opinion the parents should be charged with child abuse; If not child abuse than some other crime. This type of action is unacceptable from parents and children.

Donovan said...

At first I was amused but then it turned into disappointment when I found out that the parents put it on Facebook, and encouraged them to fight. Yes they should be punished because they put their children in danger and they could have suffered bad injuries.

Unknown said...

I was shocked to see parents encourage their children to fight someone. Normally they stant in the way and stop the fighting but not these parents. I think the parents should be punished because that is not right of watching someone get beat up. Parents are suppose to be role models for their kids and make them safe. I agree with the charges the parents faced.

Kristen said...

That video is ridiculous. Parents making their children fight just proves that they have bad parenting. I think the parents should be charges with child abuse and neglect because no reasonable parent would make their children fight. Having their children fighting on their own is different than having them fight on video and making them. Parents are supposed to teach against this behavior.

Unknown said...

When I saw this video I was extremely disturbed. Fights are somewhat common among teens due to minor disagreements and throwing hormones in just makes it worse. The parents should have been responsible and broke the fights up not encourage violence. The parents need to be prosecuted and the kids need therapy.

VictoriaV said...

I think the parents of the nine year olds should be charged with child abuse and endangerment. However, the parents of the teenagers shouldn’t be charged that severely because at that age a person can pretty much decide things on their own. Therefore, the parent’s encouragement isn’t pressuring them to fight as much as it would a nine year old. My reaction to the video is that it all seemed staged and like the two girls weren’t really mad at each other, or at least mad enough to fight. I think the parents are defiantly more to blame in the first fight they showed.

jzilla said...

Parents who actually encourage their kids to fight another child is very bad parenting on them. The parents should have their kids taken away from them. This is not really a child abuse so much as just bad parenting. Both the adults and the children should seek help for a psychiatrist for there is clearly something wrong with them.

Unknown said...

I think the parents should be punished. As a parent you should not encourage your kids to fight other kids. However, I don't think they should be charged with it child abuse. It was some reason why the kids got into the fight; I doubt it was the parents who started it. Something probably happened between the kids before the parents got involved.

Sam said...

I think that the parents should be punished. What they made their kids do was not right. It reminds me of dog fighting. This makes the child abuse charge valid in a sense. Most of the time with dog fighting the owners will abuse the dog; starve them, kick them around, and other such things all to make them more likely to fight. It could be possible that these parents are abusing their children in order to make them fight like they were doing on the video.

Brittney said...

It's a shame that parents would condone their children fighting. I do think the parents should be punished for it. Wanting your children to fight is not good parenting. Also, if you are so involved with your child fighting, like posting the video on the internet, you have no life. Although those parents did not physically hit their child, they still should be charged with child abuse because watching someone beat your child and not doing anything about it is doing harm to them. And that is not safe.

tatianna said...

My reaaction to this video is that the parents are real stupid because the must have thought that they weren't going to get caught adn it was real stupid to post the fight on facebook where anybody and everybody can see. Yes, I do think the parents should be punished because they encouraged a fight between two girls when they could have tried to stop the fight. They should be charged with child endangerment, child abuse

Tatianna Carter

Anonymous said...

Parents these days make fools out of themselves for attention. The two nine year olds were told to get in a fight by their parents who should not be telling their children to fight another child for no reason. People wonder why our generation of children are so violent and its because of the parents influence. The parents should be punished for making the nine year olds fight but, also by putting the video on Face book to show off. I think that parents shouldn't be influencing their kids that fighting like that is okay and also showing off by putting a video on the internet.
By Courtney McCaskey

Becca Banta said...

The video is crazy. Now when the parents are added into the picture it shows a whole other side. I do believe the parents should get punished with child endangerment because they were there and witnessed the fight and didn’t try to stop the fighting. It shows that these parents are irresponsible and not protective to their children. The law enforcement does not realize how much fighting between teens happen a lot of parents do get involved, that is just not known about.

Mary said...

This is crazy, I know that my parents would never encourage me to fight, although I am pretty sure that if I got into a fight I would never see the outside of my room again. The parents should be punished for encouraging their kids to fight and then publishing the video online. But as the lady in the video said, it will be hard to charge them, since there is no evidence other than them posting the fights online. It is aweful that parents would do this and encourage their children to fight especially and young ages as 9.

Justin said...

I think it is wrong for 9 years old to fight. But high school kids are a different story because they are old enough to know what there doing is right from wrong. I do believe you should know how to fight because you never know when someone is going to jump you or pull a gun on you. So I believe we should learn how to fight.

Unknown said...

I think this is crazy. Well I think it's not okay for a parent to egg her daught on to kick the other girl's butt. I think fighting is stupid and doesn't make sense. Fighting get's you knowhere.

Brandon said...

Yes the parents should be punished. Why didn't they try to stop the fight. Those kids were not nine. What in the world why would they tell their kids to fight each other. I don't even know Ms. Bryant I don't even know.

Unknown said...

I heard about the fight that happened before this one, that's ridiculous that their parents were encouraging them. The kids didn't look 9 in the video though. The parents should definitely be punished because they were making it worse and must have had some part in it.

Unknown said...

I don’t think the parents should get in trouble. I think that when the girls fought it was really funny. The girls are not nine years old. They look to be at least twelve or thirteen years old. I hope the girls fight again.

Olivia said...

It's all just a bunch of stupid. The parents should be punished because they encouraged their kids to fight each other. Then the parents put the video on facebook! Instead of videoing and egging the kids on, they should have been telling them to stop or breaking the fight up. Those girls looked a whole lot older than nine years old.

Peyton said...

I was shocked by this video. I can't believe those parents would force their kids to fight like that. I think the parents should be punished because parents just shouldn't do that. It's not right for the kids. They shouldn't be raised like that.
Peyton

Unknown said...

This is a very good example of why facebook gets people in trouble (not saying I would want something like this to be hidden). The parents shouldn't be punished because they didn't right. The kids, even though they're nine years old, have a mind of their own. The kids in the video didn't even look nine years old.

Maurica said...

I think the parents, in that situation, should be punished. I can't believe that parents would sit there and cheer for their child to fight someone else. I don't consider the fighting child abuse. I think that's just poor parenting. I believe there is a better way to teach children how to defend or protect themselves.

Maurica said...

I think the parents, in that situation, should be punished. I can't believe that parents would sit there and cheer for their child to fight someone else. I don't consider the fighting child abuse. I think that's just poor parenting. I believe there is a better way to teach children how to defend or protect themselves.

Unknown said...

I think fighting is really stupid point blank. I think the parents should be punished but not for child abuse. I was shocked at what the parents allowed their kids to do. I could never imagine getting punched in the face or fighting any one. But people are crazy now days, you never know what to expect.

Anndrea said...

Wow...This video is unbelievable. I think the parents should be punished because no one tried to at least tried to stop the girls from fighting. And it was like four adults out there. Buts it's not really child abuse because the girls are fighting each other and not being hit by the adults.

Hannah said...

This video is very shocking. I do think the parents should be punished but not with child abuse. Even though they were there they should not get charged with child abuse. They should get in trouble though. The kids should be in more trouble than the parents though.

Unknown said...

Wow I just think that all of this is crazy. No i would not take that as child abuse. All because the parents aren't hitting the children but they should be punished for what they did. Who ever told the police did a good thing. All of this is childish and to me the kids don't even look nine.

Unknown said...

No, I don't think the parents should be punished. The girls were the ones fighting and they were just protecting themselves. I would have done the same thing if my child was fighting. Its just different morals in the way people raise their kids.

kendall;>) said...

I'm going home and liking this on Facebook. I think they should be punished but not severely. I think the parents should be fined not sentenced to jailtime. I think it could affect their lives if they got sentenced to jail.

f.fawcett said...

I was shocked that the two girls parents egged them on. I mean normally parents do not want their kids fighting. Why would parents want the girls to fight?Are they crazy?I think they have to be crazy to want their kids to get in trouble for fighting. Also I was wondering what would cause two parents to want their kids to fight?I can find no reason why the two parents would want the kids to fight.I no not think the parents should be punished unless evidence is found that the parents made the 9 year old kids fight.If they did not make them fight then no the fault falls to the kids. The kids are the ones going at one another like a couple of dogs.Not the parents,though the parents did egg them on to fight.