He's 100% right. The President has no problem leveraging drugs to seem "cool", but then supports laws that criminalize those same drugs. Pick a side.

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The woman who turned to public humiliation to teach her 12 year old daughter not to take pictures near bottles of alcohol she should have never had access to and post them on social networks she shouldn't have been on? That's the woman that you're choosing to defend? But forget about the kids that the people in this…

I completely see your point. It isn't explicitly stated whether she does or not, however, given that the mother is employing "alternative" forms of discipline, and given that the child specifically requested a spanking instead, and given the mother's casual use of the term - it makes me lean towards believing that…

"She actually asked for a spanking instead; she begged for a spanking," she said.

LOL jryan graduated college magna cum laude and now makes quite a bit of money.

Spanking and consequences of one's actions are two completely different concepts. I completely agree that you need to get burned to learn not to touch the stove - so to speak. However, getting spanked is not a direct result of one's actions. The threat of getting burned doesn't go away as you get older. The threat…

If only I was beaten as a child! Then I would have had more friends!

Ok. Fair enough. While it doesn't explicitly say one way or the other in the article, the quotes are enough evidence for me to conclude that she has been spanked before. It's just really out of place for a child to "beg" for a spanking when they've never received one in the past. Perhaps I'm wrong with that…

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You're right. Perhaps some children and parents are just savages. You were a self described "brat", and you describe your own children as sometimes being "monsters." You should definitely beat brats and monsters. There's no talking to them!

I made a very simple, small comment. The rest of this thread has been me debating with people who support beating children.

I made a comment on what I felt like commenting on. Then the thread grew as people came out in support of beating children.

Does it matter? The mother's initial reaction was to publicly humiliate her daughter. Does that sound like a solid mother-daughter relationship to you?

Unfortunately, Gawker's commenting system makes it difficult for me to see which of my comments each of your comments is in reply to.

Yeah, you're right. The 12 year old girl posted a picture with some alcohol she shouldn't have had access to on a social network she shouldn't have been on, prompting her mother to post an embarrassing photo of her to another social network, which was so bad to the child that she begged for a beating.

LOL just out of curiosity, is this the first time someone has had an entire conversation with you and concluded you were a fucking moron? I find it really hard to believe that this is the first time.

And because you don't agree with spanking doesn't mean many others don't. Don't assume your way is "right", you're being quite self righteous there.

So you acknowledge that the parent would be someone with an anger problem - likely to hit me, right?

The abuse I'm referring to is the spanking. I don't know how to make this any clearer, I've said it in this thread like 10 billion times.