Replies to '08/09 A Mother's Rage'

You can bet if she is kicking around her kids she is kicking around her husband or at the very least she is thinking about it.    

This isn't discipline, this is family violence 

Many in my time, (the babyboomers 1945-1959) watched our relatives and neighbors get beat BADLY by their parents as seen in this clip for Mondays show.  IT WAS TYPICAL of how parents punished their children.    

My husband has 11 siblings him being #9.  They grew up watching their Dad BEAT the living daylights out of their mother on a weekly basis.  She had:  

• Both her legs broken 3 times
• Both her arms broken 2 times
• Her face and cheeks beat severly
• Her eyes blacked out all the time
• Her one kidney removed because of a severe beating involving her being kicked badly on that kidney
• A 12 guage shotgun, cocked, safety off and trigger pulled while pointed in the middle of her forehead.  Fortunately, the oldest son (at age 15 at the time) knew the Dad had loaded it and he would unload it every time the Dad loaded it.  When the Dad pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he beat her severely
• Had a miscarriage because of a beating
• Stayed with him until the youngest was 3 when she sat them down and asked if they would be ok if she and Daddy lived apart.  They cried tears of JOY!!! She was soooo shocked...she thought they wanted to have their Dad there with them!!
• ALL 11 of the children have had at least 2 children.  ALL OF THEM HAVE NEVER laid a hand on their child, using other methods to "punish".
• Everytime my husband and I watch a television movie, or talk show with abuse, he always says, "Why do people continue to use it happen to me, so I continue the abuse excuse'??  Everyone is an adult..GROW UP!  GET HELP!!  My husband and his siblings cannot understand how someone could do this to their child, especially when they have suffered the same treatment.

So, even though Karen MAY have had this same type of abuse bestowed upon her during her childhood, this is NO REASON to do this to her innocent children.  There are those who NEVER EVER do this to their children, even though they have had severe emotional and physical abuse done to them for many many years.  Please do not allow this EXCUSE to continue.  If you see abuse, hear abuse, or a child tells you about abuse.....R E P O R T  I T!!!!  Get Children's Protective Service involved and keep on them!!! You will GET RESULTS!!  

I am sorry if this mom had problems in her past.  There are lots of people in this world that has things in their past. But no matter how bad it was, IT DOES NOT GIVE HER A RIGHT TO HURT HER CHILDREN!