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The "correct age" is common sense, when parents are in the right bracket for their children's age. Meaning that your sixteen year old won't "knock you out" that easy, as he can knock out a senior.
Running after a three-year old toddler when you are fifty, doesn't make much sense either.
What??? So a guy with physical disabilities shouldn't have a child. And if he does, he deserves to get punched because he just isn't tough enough? Please tell me I'm misreading your post.
We really don't know any background here, but in general, there are plenty of teenage boys who get old enough to finally defend themselves and the rest of the family. And I'm good with that.
We don't know any background but you keep saying the son had a right to defend himself. From what?
No, I'm not. I continue to say "we don't know", "we'll probably never know", etc.
I'm saying it's possible for a teenage boy to be in a position where punching his father in the face is absolutely justified.
Here is what you said earlier
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My childhood wasn't rough. My background is in social work. So I do understand signs of a family problem. And a young man punching his dad is a big sign of an abusive household, not an out of control aggressive teenager.
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Your last sentence is clearly speculative and shows your bias. You have no idea if this kid was abused or just some jerk who feels entitled to get whatever he wants or resorts to violence. I see the "Gray-Bar Hotel" in his future.
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Here is what you said earlier
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My childhood wasn't rough. My background is in social work. So I do understand signs of a family problem. And a young man punching his dad is a big sign of an abusive household, not an out of control aggressive teenager.
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Your last sentence is clearly speculative and shows your bias. You have no idea if this kid was abused or just some jerk who feels entitled to get whatever he wants or resorts to violence. I see the "Gray-Bar Hotel" in his future.
How are my responses any different from the deluge of people saying the kid should be locked up for a long time, or that the mom is an enabler?
Jumping to conclusions only seems to irritate you if they jump in the opposite of where you jump.
How are my responses any different from the deluge of people saying the kid should be locked up for a long time, or that the mom is an enabler?
Jumping to conclusions only seems to irritate you if they jump in the opposite of where you jump.
It doesn't irritate me. I am just amazed you say what field you work in but you clearly are not unbiased. You seem to support violence only if it works in your favor. See how this works.
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Everyone bringing their baggage and preconceptions to a thread to speculate about what they think happened.
Yes, guilty as charged.
Many social experiments have been designed around exactly such a concept: people are given little information, and are asked to flesh out what happened just by their life experiences.
Some people pretty much distrust teens and think teens need much more discipline, and in fact often state that they should be kicked out of the home as minors, some wonder about the adults in the teen's life when they react with violence toward parents.
It all depends on what you've experienced or witnessed in your own life.
Like that experiment showing a film of a group of people talking animatedly, but there is no sound. People are asked to try to correctly guess what is being said.
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Is that not how every thread works though?
Well, CD threads work like that because that's how life works, and how human interactions and behaviors work.
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