Is a parent attacks you, can you still defend yourself?

[Anonymous]

Luckily I never had this situation and my parents didn't have to hit me into submission to get their point across but I don't understand why do so many parents think they can hit you over anything or use excessive physical force esp when it's not self-defense, if you're in your mid-teen years or older.

If hypothetically speaking my mother proceeded to slap or something and I saw her hand moving, I would grabbed it on time or block myself, then walk away.

If my father started attacking me for something other just saying some words and I couldn't get away, I would be grabbing the nearest object or kick him below if I had to.

in my opinion I don't think anyone is immune from self-defense. I also think no one has the rights to beat you or hit you repetitive times until you submit and said ''I'm sorry mother/father'' or in your screwed up mind think ''It was deserved''. No it wasn't. Hitting isn't deserved.

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+1 y

Sorry but if those hypothetically situations happened, I'm not just going to stand there and let myself getting beaten just because they're my parents.

I don't deserve to get beaten nor punched, nor slapped by anyone.

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+1 y

I was taught that hitting someone should be use as last resort in total self-defense. I would have no problems with that. But with many parents and other cultures, it's like they hit for anything or even for just words said.

[Emperior]

There are a lot of parents who do this. In my opinion, hitting the child is no way to get a point across. They say they want their children to be a success and be something when they're older. The only thing you're doing by beating the shit out of them is making them depressed and less motivated in life. Defiantly what you wanted, right?

But if they do hit you for any reason, you have the full right to hit them back. I was at a friends house one night and his step dad came in his room and punched him in the face because he didn't clean his bathroom. My friend got him down on the ground and literally beat him senseless. When the cops came later, his step dad was arrested and he got in no trouble.

[Asker]

I know right. I was shocked to see this statement on a yahoo answer and this is what this person stated:
''You are lucky that your father did not beat you bloody for the way you talked to him and what you did.
When I was 16, I did just about the same thing to my mother. She pissed me off and I got mad at her; I told her I hated her and I wished she was dead; and I spit on her! My daddy whipped me with his belt, for behaving like that toward my mother; and believe me, I never did it again! An apology would have done no good and it would not have saved me from a whipping; not where daddy was concerned after the way I treated my mother. Even my little sister thought I was completely out of line.''

Obviously there is bad parenting if a parent has to still use a belt on a 16 year-old child instead of other ways. Why even the need to use an object to get your points across?

[Asker]

True, maybe you learn not to do it again but not for the right reason. You only learn it through ''I learn not to talk that way to my mother because my father will whip my behind'' but not ''I don't want to my mother that way because it's not right and it's trashy behavior''. Only not doing it out of fear of getting hit tells me nothing that they have learn.

[Asker]

And what if it was the mother alone? Needing another parent to use an object to hit you with tells me nothing about effective parenting.