If you suffered an abusive dad, maybe you’d me more sensitive to this. This is not a left-right, Dem-Rep, lib-cons, Christian-Non-Christian argument. Abuse is abuse.
This story's example was not abuse. You are 100% out of synch with reality here. I would have gladly traded my REAL abuse for being forced to run to school in the mornings. GLADLY.
It all depends how we define abuse doesn’t it?
I hate to pile on here, but I had an abusive dad, too, so I am very sensitive to abuse. I must ask, did you watch the video? There is nothing in it that I can see is abusive, at least not from my experience. Perhaps if I stretch myself, I might consider it unhelpful to name his child on camera, or to post it on Facebook.
However, what he insisted the child do as a result of being thrown off the bus was rather remarkable. The *experts* suggest that a punishment fit the bad behavior as closely to the offense as possible. Some parents would have driven the kid to school, but what does that teach the kid? Mom and dad weren’t unruly on the bus, why should either of them have to drive the kid to school? This discipline makes perfect sense.
I don’t hear the father cussing him out, calling him names, hitting or striking the child. He isn’t yelling or screaming. Children need to know when they cross the line. I think this dad came up with a creative punishment that was something the kid could handle. He wasn’t overworked. It wasn’t beyond his capability. It seemed to me to be very tailored to the situation.