[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because it was not a beating.

It was a few slaps.

And he was not a child. He was early teens at the youngest.

Old enough to think that he could go act like an adult.

His mother reminded him that she was the adult. He was the child.

[mlizzy]

Because it was not a beating.

Nowhere near the beating an abortion would have been. I wonder what the author thinks of that.