If a child is mentally ill and violent whose responsibility is to to help them??
You tell me that!
You tell me whose responsibility it is to help a mentally ill child besides their parents!
If you seriously are going to tell me that mentally ill children are abusers you get the fuck off our blog.
we live with our abusive mum. But if I started beating the shit out of her, that’s still abuse
No! No it isn’t! If your mom is physically abusive toward you then hitting her back is self defense!
Minor children don’t just randomly start beating the shit out of their parents without reason.
If they do its because they are mentally ill and their parent literally is the only one they can depend on to get them help for that.
You cannot become a parent if you are not willing to accept that your child might be mentally disabled of literally, legitimately violently psychotic!
Children who are psychotic need help, they are not abusive! Calling mentally ill children abusive is extremely ableist!
Hitting your abusive parent back is not abuse it is self defense.
If a violent child is not getting help for their aggression, whose fault do you think that is????
In 1971 the United States Government lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18, in response to widespread social unrest.
You see, 18 year olds were being drafted and sent against their will to fight in the Vietnam war.
And a lot of these teenagers were wondering ‘hey, how come you can force me to go fight in a war that I was too young to vote for? If I’m still kid why are you allowed to send me to die in a war?“
So at least in the US, the reason we’re considered adults at 18 is so that we can die as soldiers.
As for if it would affect proship discourse if the age of majority was 21, I can’t begin to guess because the last 50 years would have been very different.
Children who are legal minors cannot abuse their parents. Full stop.
A child who is a minor is legally and environmentally beholden to their parent without any recourse.
If a child who is a minor is violent toward their parent it is the result of mental illness, abuse, or neglect– and it is the parent’s literal job to rectify any of these problems.
A child who is a minor is completely vulnerable to their parents.
A child who is an independent adult can absolutely abuse their elderly parent, because the situation of vulnerability has been reversed.
This discussion has been about children who are minors, and who are legally and environmentally under the complete control of their parents.
This conversation has never been about the denial of elder abuse.
If a child who is a minor is violent toward their parent it is because the parent is doing something wrong, and it is the parent’s responsibility to fix it because that is literally their job and the child has no ability or agency to fix it themselves.
Yes, absolutely.
Elder abuse by adult children is a very real and terrible thing that puts parents in the a similar vulnerable position that children are in as minors.
I haven’t addressed that because the discussion was specifically about minors, and whether children who were minors could abuse their parents.
I am so sorry that you were subjected to that. That’s awful.
Children can abuse adults or be abusive toward adults.
Children cannot abuse their parents.
A parent has complete legal and environmental control over their child.
A child’s violence toward their parent is a result of mental illness, abuse, or neglect, all of which are the responsibility of that parent.
You cannot abuse someone who has total control over you.
Children are under the absolute power of their parents in our current social structure.
There is simply no ethical way to frame any violent actions of a person against someone who has total control over them and their environment as ‘abuse’ no matter the circumstances.
If a child is acting violently toward their parent it is the result of untreated mental illness, neglect, or abuse, all of which are the responsibility of that parent.
Saying that “children cannot abuse their parents” is in no way the same as saying “women cannot abuse men.”
Parents have total legal and environmental control over their children. The actions of a child are the parent’s responsibility.
Thanks friend, but I saw the context.
While I agree with much of the post– obviously minors can be abusive to adults– the addition about children abusing their parents is simply not something that I can agree with nor is the language about “beating brats”.
Sinister system grew up in an extremely abusive home. Both emotionally and physically abusive.
Part of that abuse was the abuse against our brother, who was the “golden child”.
Our brother was never properly taught to behave as a child; our parents literally gave him whatever he wanted.
When our parents punished us for something it was in the form of a physical beating, or screaming at us.
Due to this combination of factors, our brother grew up believing that screaming at people and physically abusing them is how you get your way with people.
So when he got older, and bigger, and our parents tried to say “no” to something, he would scream and swear, and break things and psychically hurt our father.
Our brother was not the abusive one in this situation.
Our parents, who taught our brother that abuse was the way to get what you want, were the abusive ones toward him.
Now Alphas in their rooms! :::D Betas
I drew lil cal looking away, i hope you guys are fine w/ that little change
(he’s really fre