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Do you believe spanking children is appropriate punishment? Why or why not? Were you spanked as a child? Do you think this step-father acted inappropriately? Should he be convicted? Why or why not?
18 comments:
Spanking isn't a bad punishment. Though if it goes to the level that that man went to its beating, punishment. I was spanked but only when I was really bad. I definitely think the step dad went too far. Maybe not convicted but it depends on if he keeps doing it or not.
Kyle E.
Yes I do believe spanking children is appropriate punishment. Why, because if the child deserved it then thats what they. I was spanked all over. Yes, I think this step-father acted inappropriately. No he shouldn't be convicted. Why, because he can't get in trouble all because he beat his child. But it is wrong to beat your child for no reason. He beat his child all because he dropped the ball.
Jaquitta
Wow this kid should have to live there. That isn’t fixing a punishment if he just keeps beating him. I’m a believer in spankings because it helped my brother’s problems, but if this boy had some mental issues he defiantly shouldn’t deserve it. I don’t think step parents should be able hit their step kids because they have no blood ties with them and that should be the real parent’s job. This video wasn’t just spanking.
I believe a spanking to a certain degree is okay because sometimes that's all the kids respond to. I was spanked every time I did something bad enough to be spanked. I don't know that fathers situation so I cant judge and say he acted right or not. I don't think he should be because the kid sounds like a stubborn trouble maker so it might be the only way to teach the kid
yes to a certain point because everyone in there life needs punishment without it criminals will run free. No I wasn't spanked as a child. Yes I do think he acted inappropriately because the boy is mentally ill in many cases yes and no. Yes because the beating was caught on tape and looked very wrong. No because we don't know what the boy said or did to deserve that beating.
Spanking isn't a bad punishment except when it gets outta hand. I think spanking doesn't teach any child a lesson, it's just abusing them. I wasn't spanked as a child. I do think this step-father acted inappropriately because the boy didn't catch the ball. The fact it wasn't his child, he was just a step-father. I think he should be convicted because it wasn't his son.
Spanking children is an appropriate punishment. It is appropriate because some children need it and it helps to get them straighten out. I was spanked when I was a child. If he mouthed off to him then it wasn't inapprpriate. He shouldn't be convicted for spanking his child if he does wrong but if he spanked him from droping the ball then that's another story.
No its not. All its going to do is make the kid have revenge on his parents. Its not teaching the child anything except how to beat their own kids when they are going to be parents. I wasn't spanked when I was little because I always had my mom around me. Little kids do stupid things and fathers are the main ones to have a fit about it. Mothers protect their kids and actually have common sense that a child does mistakes all the time. This crazy-guy definitely acted stupid and inappropriately. I hope he is convicted of many charges so he'll be in jail longer to keep him away from other people's kids. He's not only putting his step-son's life in danger, but also everybody else's. He seriously needs to stay away from little kids.
I believe in spanking children for punishment but not as far as abuse. I was spanked as a child and it made me never want to do what I did to get punished ever again. I don't think that we will really know because we don't know how the kid acts but I think that the fact that he is not his real son but his step son that its too much.
I think spanking children is an appropriate punishment. If a child won't listen and time-out isn't working then spanking will surely work. Only to a certain point though. If you are doing that to a child like this step-father is doing, then that's bad. Yes, I was spanked as a child. I learned my lesson too. Yes I think this step-father acted inappropriately. I also this he should be convicted. I think the child should be taken from his care.
Spanking is a way to take control of kids. It's not abuse, but he took that pretty far. He should be charged because of that.
Cody Barlow
I believe spanking children is appropriate punishment sometimes but only if the child did something really horrible. I was spanked as a child and I hated it. I think this step-father acted inappropriately but I don’t feel that he should be convicted because there are no bruises or any kind of marks left on the child.
I believe in spanking children for punishment but not as far as abuse. I was spanked as a child and it made me never want to do what I did to get punished ever again. I do think this step-father acted inappropriately because the boy didn't catch the ball. No because we don't know what the boy said or did to deserve that beating.
-Travis Legate
If this was me i would be very upset . This video was a very sad video . I don't know alot about what happened or why he is getting whipped like that .
I don't think that spanking children is appropriate punishment. I think that it teaches children violence and that hitting is okay. I was spanked as a child but only by my stepdad. I was never spanked when I lived with my dad so I was never spanked until I was atleast 6 years old when I moved in with my stepdad. I don't think that this step-father acted appropriately at all. Yes he should be convicted because what was shown on tape was not right.
I think spanking children is okay for somethings. It depends on what the child had did to deserve the punishment. In this case I think that even though the child had ADHD, and didn't catch the ball was no reason to start hitting him. The step-father needs to accept the fact that the child has ADHD and the step-father needs to try and help him rather than beat him. I was spanked various times as a child. I think the step-father was over reacting, he should not have took out whatever anger he was feeling on the child because the child did not deserve that beating, no matter what the step-father said, he did not deserve it. I think that the step-father should be convicted because he was flat out crazy for hitting the child.
Sometimes it's an appropriate punishment , but sometimes it can be way too much. Because it's okay sometime ,but sometime people can take it way too far. Yes. I don't know if he acted appropirately ,but i can't know if he acted innappropriately. I don't know if he should be convicted. Well it's just really hard to judge based on his actions and the story.
ZACH CAHALAN
I don't believe spanking a child is appropriate at all. I was spanked a few times when I was little, but when I knew I had done something wrong I would go in my room and put on like ten pairs of underwear so it would not hurt as bad. I think the step-father should be convicted!
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