Posted on 11/18/2014 8:41:59 AM PST by C19fan
Dwight Howard is under criminal investigation for child abuse ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
We've learned the Cobb County PD in Georgia now has an active criminal investigation into allegations he beat his 6-year-old son Braylon with a belt buckle.
TMZ Sports broke the story ... the Dept. of Children and Families in Florida (DCF) determined there wasn't enough evidence of child abuse to go forward, but it turns out the incident occurred in Georgia. Howard admits he hit his kid with a belt, but says he didn't know it was wrong because he was hit as a kid.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Maybe he and Adrian Peterson can get shared custody of one another and beat each other silly.
Who is Dwight Howard?
Is another lesser known brother of Ron Howard?
Talk about burying the lede.
Is this guy a talk show host, a politician, a sports figure etc.-Tom
Who is Dwight Howard?
Is another lesser known brother of Ron Howard?
I didn’t know either. I had to research it.
I don’t watch the nba and haven’t for years.
Must be the Houston Rockets basketball player. He is from Atlanta.
Don’t hit your kids and especially don’t hit them with an object.
Beating is with your fists, like I beat him to a pulp
THEN I read this;
" ... the TMZ Sports story summarizing a doctor's findings that Howard committed child abuse."
And remembered when doctors were asked (or mandated?) to collect data about people that had nothing to do with the flu ... do you have guns in the house/ how often do you masturbate ? etc.
So some doctor used the word and concept of beating, called it child abuse, reported it .... when all the kid got was a lickin'
Unfortunately, lawyers will argue this in Latin instead of English and because no one remembers gettin' a lickin' (it sort'a ended in the fifties .. ), no one will (can) explain it as such
Newspeak will be used to define and explain social engineering rather than explaining a kid got disciplined.
And then there’s a “good lickin’”. That would really hurt.
The correct answer from Dwight Howard and anyone else in this position, is MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Willow switches and belts were the tools of parenting a thousand generations. Only now, do we have a truly EVIL 2 or 3 generations alive on this Earth at one time. Why is that? No discipline at all, period. They have no fear, therefore no respect.
My pop beat me as a child...with a belt buckle and his hand - with hand print welts while visiting the Dr the very next day, the Dr asked "who did that" - I replied "Dad"....to which the Dr said I "deserved" it....I was 9..it was 1970
he stopped when I reached 15...turning to verbal and emotional abuse instead...it continues today, I'm 52
I can only pray for that kid
I agree.
My mother would hit me with whatever. Kitchen utensils, belt, hand, clothes hangers. She would throw me into doors, walls...whatever.
And then of course the worst of it was the verbal and emotional crap.
I am not saying that all parents who spank are abusers, but many parents who whip are abusive. My husband has the scars on his butt to prove it.
I am sick of FReepers on this board who are so dismissive of claims of child abuse. It happens a lot, and it is wrong.
You should raise your kid to respect and obey you because he loves and honors you.
If you beat your kid he only obeys you out of fear.
But if you like your kid fearing you instead of respecting you then what I am saying will make no sense to you.
nope...did not end in fifties..i grew up in seventies and early eighties..my brother and i used to get our ass tore up with the belt...dont see the big deal...there is a difference between abuse and good ole ass whipping from dad...problem is no kids get that good ole ass whipping from dad anymore..and a lot of it is because there is no “dad” to be found anywhere. i may get pounded for this but i do not see a problem with good ole ass whipping to get a kid back in line and make think twice before doing it again. and im not talking about beating toddlers with belts and such that are not old enough to understand what they did wrong. and yes i have two daughters one grown and moved on. one still with us
Mike
Quite a few differing attitudes on this thread.
America was developed and built by men that had a father that disciplined his son.
I don't much give a shit WHAT feminist thought pattern has crept into the American psyche ... men built this nation and they, in all probability had THEIR asses whooped and whooped a few themselves
Then along came the sixties.
I was in the same situation. “Mommy Dearest” at her worst beat me with coat hangers, leather strap, rattan cane, willow switch, dog leash — anything she could get her hands on — and when she was done beating me, the verbal and emotional abuse continued for hours and sometimes days. Although the scars on my backside faded years ago, the emotional scars will haunt me forever.
I shudder to think how many mothers there are out there like ours.
It is funny you wrote “mommy dearest”. My mother was exactly like how Joan Crawford was portrayed in the movie. Bat s**t crazy, and unbelievably abusive. But without the money or fame.
That movie felt like a documentary to me.
I grew up thinking that all mothers beat their children into submission. It was only after the negative fall-out from the book “Mommie Dearest” did I realize that beating your child is not the norm and that my mother was pure evil. As I got older and became numb to her physical and emotional abuse, she punished me by beating my dog until he yelped in pain. Sick, sick, sick.
The fear of God, is the beginning of wisdom. Do you think they meant live in fear of the Almighty smiting you? Show me a person that does not fear his parents, I will show you someone that lives without guardrails in his life.
When your child reaches for a hot stove, do you not slap his hand?
Abuse and discipline are two different things.
Some people don’t understand the difference.
Do you understand the difference?
Why are you working so hard on this thread to defend child abusers newbie?
We’re confusing two words together to create a stigma. It is intentional.
Hitting and spanking.
There’s a difference.
Hitting is bad.
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