11-09-2015, 06:16 PM
(11-09-2015, 06:14 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Do you consider all corporal punishment "abuse"?The DHHS data shows that of children abused by one parent, 70.6% were abused by their mothers, whereas only 29.4% were abused by their fathers.
And of children who died at the hands of one parent, 70.8% were killed by their mothers, whereas only 29.2% were killed by their fathers.
(These were reported abuse cases, not paddlings...)
To answer your question, no. I don't consider corporal punishment to be the same as abuse/neglect.
