Ok.. I remember getting beating like this as a kid.. Guess what.. I learned to obey the law. I learned to reperct authority. I learned I didn't like my ass getting beat so I did the right thing. Yes, a little over the top with the language used I'll agree. But if I was told to turn around and I didn't, or I ran from the spanking.. It became a beating. Make me sick.. No.. Would love to smack him in his mouth for cursing his daughter.. Yes. What kills me though it the following:
She obviously got the technology that she wanted even though her dad wished NOT to have it. (backwards or not.. He was against it) so the least she could do is follow the ruies. Second.. The wife was not to blame... Manipulated in to assisting.. She already spanked her before the dad got home (and for those who remember that famous line... "Wait, 'til your father gets home").. And the second one was in an attempt to get her to bend over like her father had told her to do.... No 'manipulation' in that.
Ok.. Here's HER options (the child). Get pulled from the home and removed from the family. Go to CPS and live in halfway houses or foster homes (if someone will adopt a 16 year old).. Life is easy. So tired of this "You just need a time out" BS of a country of ours. We wonder what the F is wrong with kids, but they have no respect for authority. They have no idea of what a real conciquence is until they are grown adults trying to figure out why they are in jail or why they can't hold a job and THEN they run back to mommy and daddy. Everyone is in every body elses business on how to do their own house, but when it boils down to it, they aren't there to help that house.. just criticize it.
I'm sorry if I am pissing in your wheaties right now, but point blank... As a kid I got bit.. That video isn't ****. And I hated it as a kid and not even saying it's right as an adult.. But wouldn't you prefer to beat your kids ass' now vs the justice system, life, the pissed off person with a gun beat their ass later? I teach martial arts and it makes me sick when parents come in and want me to give thier kids discipline. My first thought is if they don't get it at home, it won't mean *ish getting it here. The ones that are "time out" babies are still bad.. The ones that act out but get a belt are usually a lot more responsive. I've spanked (not beat) my daughter with a belt. Most of the time when she was younger, and only for the most of serious of 'offenses'. I'm lucky.. She learned in life quicker than I did. Granted I didn't give her what I got as a child, but she still got.
Point being, unless you truely belive in "It takes a village to raise a child" and you're going to be part of that village, then you have to move around when it's someone else's house.. And remember.. When you have one finger pointing out, there's always three pointing back.
/Rant