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I do imagine that in court, if the judge hears about one parent having slapped their child in the face, that will for sure hurt their case.

Sometimes I see the line of what is abuse vs punishment being blurred. As a child and throughout my teen years, I was slapped in the face thousands of times by my mother and my throat was grabbed once by my dad and brother. Although abuse from my dad came in the form of threatening and emotional abuse while with my mom, it was both. I remember when I was 12 years old, I heard my mom on the phone with my grandma bragging about how she'd slap both me and my older brother in the face.

I absolutely consider what she did to me abuse of a child, she no longer does it because I'm now significantly bigger than her and exponentially stronger, and I've also stood up to her on many occasions, not afraid to get in her face and yell far louder than she can, to her astonishment.

She still tries to emotionally control me, and screams at me when I confront her on the constant abuse she put me through, she just fake cries and when i tell someone else, she demands that I tell them it isn't true. Same as she did when a doctor asked me when I was in the hospital for lung infections, if my parents ever hit me and I told him that my mom regularly hits me and she demanded that I tell him it isn't true, but I refused.

My dad then told me I disgraced the family and myself. If a parent slaps her child in the face with more than enough force to cause bruising, do you consider that abuse of a child? Should that parent be arrested and charged for it?

Do you considering spanking a child (hitting them anywhere but the face, as punishment) to be abuse?

I'm a teacher and had to do annual training again, including reporting child abuse. It is pretty standard, common sense stuff here in Korea (physical, emotional, psychological abuse, or neglect), but I imagine in America, "abuse" would be mis-gendering your child nowadays, because the West is raising a bunch of snowflakes.

I actually had an abusive mother, so I don't consider spanking to be abuse. I was moreso raised by my grandmother than my mother, and when I talked back, my Dutch-American grandma raised in the South, would actually use a tree branch to spank me with. Stung like a motherf*cker, but worked. I don't look at my grandma as being "abusive" for that, even though she "hit" me way more than my actual mother did.

A child KNOWS what's abuse and what's punishment. Abusive parents usually don't "love you" one minute, and hurt you the next. Their abuse is consistent and usually not just "physical abuse," but more so, emotional abuse and other forms, as well. If your mom and dad love you, but spanked you because you tried to steal your neighbor's car at age 12, then that's not abuse.

But what do you think? Considering today's Millennials, I imagine we're going to get a lot of "Dr. Phil moms" who think even raising your voice at a child is "abuse" and are going to have little future-felons by the time they're 15.