Article said that "last week" it took the jury an hour to clear Skousen. A lot of these parental trials never make news, so it's unclear how often it is happening.
We personally know a couple that works hard running their own business and try to raise their kids the right way. A couple years ago, when the kids were ages 14 and 16, they got home from school a couple hours before the parents, as usual.
Both of them had forgotten the housekeys. Instead of calling or breaking a small window in back, they kicked the front door in.
Dad arrives home first, and was shocked to see his front door kicked in. He berates the kids and they lip back. He plants one swift kick on the backside of the boy.
Next day, he told the story on the bus, and the bus driver reports it. You know the rest of the story.
Dad gets a 2500$ fine and ordered to not touch the boy again. There goes the kid's allowance for quite awhile...hehehe.
As for Mom? She just says they were lucky that Dad came home first.
This is what gets me. These same people who can't bear the idea of any parental disciple, are the very same people who cozy up to the Islamists, who use flogging, stoning and such for the smallest thing. The very same ones who scream that parents are responsible for crimes their children commit. It all seems crazy.
Here is a link to a thread on 12 Saudi teens flogged for harrassing and flirting with women in a park designated for family use:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/731958/posts
There was also some poor black single mom who was a correctional officer in a juvenile facility. She saved enough money to buy a house for her kids and herself, as well as a car. She came home after a stressful day of work and one of her kids mouthed off at her. She was so angry with him, she either tied him up or handcuffed him. Then she went to make dinner. By the time dinner was on the table, the cops were at the door, arresting her. The hot-shot district attorney (a woman) was going to make a big deal out of this so she hauled the woman into court and of course overcharged her. She stated in the press she wanted this woman to go to JAIL. The jury convicted her of something like false imprisonment which was a felony offense. The woman can't go back to work because apparently if you are a corrections officer, you can't have a felony conviction. She loses the house and the car. Sonny goes to live with Dad. I don't know if she was put on probation or jailed. I believe "hot-shot" modified her request for jail, however, after receiving poor press. Another family destroyed by the "helping" family services.