I read in the local newspaper in Stafford, VA, that a judge forbid a woman from spanking her 7-year old. The woman took a plea deal, as otherwise she was facing several years in prison for child abuse. The kid misbehaved, the mother spanked her on the butt with a leather belt, the enstranged husband reported the (x)wife...


Now, my question is to the judge - will the woman be able to sue the judge (and the procecutor, for that matter of fact) when her grown up daughter, say, 18 or 20, commits a crime, because she was NOT taught the responsibility values as a kid because the judge prevented the mother from teaching the kid those values?...

where are we heading as a society, when a society shields the kids from responsibility, from punishment (and how do you punish a kid who doesn't care about money, responsibility? spank his a$$!!!) while they are little, and then swings with a full force of the law enFORCEment once they are all grown up... the society sets them up for this failure...

I am not saying this as an excuse for their behavior, that the society is at fault - they should know that every action will have a reaction... I am just perplexed by the sheer ability of the lawyers to spin the facts... good thing, there are video footages from different angles, and the guys can't deny the facts - shit is a shit, no matter how dice it, slice it or garnish it...