[catpuppy]

Yet, we were so ignorant, we didn't even realize how abusive our parents were.

How true! Why sometimes they even spanked us and sent us off to bed without supper after washing our mouths out with soap. Often they had the nerve to actually visit our school to spy on us and to talk with our teachers. How embarrassing for us. I only wish that we had been able to sue them for mental cruelty and extreme anguish and invasion of privacy. Additionally, instead of believing our fibs, they would almost always accept the word of any neighbor who claimed that we were getting into trouble.

Thank Heaven that such parental cruelty is no longer permitted.

[sweetliberty]

Yes, and teachers and parents used to actually be in cahoots, working together to see that children were trained to be civilized people and proper citizens. Now, teachers have become state appointed snitches mandated reporters of suspected child "maltreatment", diagnosticians of "mental" disorders and general underminers of proper parental authority and teaching.