"The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly opposes striking a child for any reason. Spanking is never recommended; infants may be physically harmed by a parent who strikes the child. If a spanking is spontaneous, parents should later explain calmly why they did it, the specific behavior that provoked it, and how…

The American Academy of Pediatrics disagrees with you. So do all of my child development professors. So do I.

I always want to respond, "Really? You did? Because you turned out to be the kind of person who thinks it's okay to beat defenseless children, and that's not great at all."

That's because these are the people that view their children as their property.

And if only I could get out of the greys, I could be a part of that conversation! Ha.

I appreciate your willingness to acknowledge that this is a complicated issue and that sometimes it's hard to know the right answer. I am reading the discussion about it and feel that I am learning.

FUCKING THIS.

And then she looks at her momma like, "Do YOU know what's going on?"

The way she just goes to both of them like, "I guess you're probably my dad?"

Omg, her confusion is so adorable. Why does this make me laugh so very much?

How is this shit legal? You can't ARREST someone for using their cell phone. Using the cell phone is against a school rule, not the law. Police officers are supposed to enforce the law. When did we make violating school policy a criminal act?

I understand that. However, one is done with the intent to harm another person. The other is not.

Do you really not understand the difference between dealing with the consequences of a loved one doing drugs vs. that person straight-up punching you in the face?

Was his career destroyed by outside forces? Or did he get fired because he committed a violent crime against another human being and it was embarrassing for his employers?

Heroin abusers aren't violently hurting other people.

He committed a violent crime. Many people are fired from their jobs after committing violent crimes. That's not unusual.

Read the twitter hashtags #WhyIStayed and #WhenILeft if you really want an answer to this question.

I get this, and also the opposite of this. Sometimes when I see that he's about to get off, that turns me on, so I do, too.

Ditto.