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Shaming a child is a ridiculous form of discipline, and is a direct reflection on the step fathers lack of parenting skills, he also choose to record the event and should be judged accordingly. No one has suggested that the child shouldn't have been disciplined. Another thing that troubles me is that in addition to harsh methods of discipline it appears that he the step father was the primary disciplinarian which I wholeheartedly disagree with, that is the biological mothers job and the step father should have been playing a secondary supportive role.
Some of you folks would love if children weren't disciplined at all. First it was spanking. Now you want to crusade against shaming. What exactly do you think disciplines a child that has no respect for themselves or others? Standing in a corner? Time out? Lol. I swear some American parents are the worst. We don't have these problems in my culture.
Except that this is not unusual or outside of the social norms. You don't have to like it, but you can't do that to your kid over it.
One is an adult and one WAS a child.
In some circles, it's not unusual or outside of their social norms to use crack cocaine or have multiple babies from different fathers by the age of 18.
In normal families, the 13 year old girl does not send multiple nude photos of herself to boys. If she indeed killed herself because she was embarrassed by the video of her being scolded by her stepfather, and yet she was not embarrassed that there were multiple naked photos of her floating around boys' phones, something was deeply off in her worldview. Although I doubt that this video was why she did it. Poor child, but the stepfather seems to have tried to help her, the best he knew how.
He wasn't her father. He was her stepfather and his reaction to her sending a topless pic to a boy was that of a crazed jealous boyfriend than a "father" figure.
Other articles say she dealt with daily verbal abuse and her mother never intervened. Who knows what else was going on in that home. The man sounds like a sick freak who got off on torturing this girl. I hope he pays for this somehow and the motber as well.
I knew it had to be something like this. I think both the "mother" and "father" should be held criminally responsible. I hate to hear stories of women picking men over their children, never ends well. If I ever divorce my daughter's father, there will NOT be another man in my household until she's gone to college. I never understood that. SMH
In some circles, it's not unusual or outside of their social norms to use crack cocaine or have multiple babies from different fathers by the age of 18.
In normal families, the 13 year old girl does not send multiple nude photos of herself to boys. If she indeed killed herself because she was embarrassed by the video of her being scolded by her stepfather, and yet she was not embarrassed that there were multiple naked photos of her floating around boys' phones, something was deeply off in her worldview. Although I doubt that this video was why she did it. Poor child, but the stepfather seems to have tried to help her, the best he knew how.
If that was his best then his best sucked, poor excuse for parenting, he's a damn fool.
Maybe not, but in a case where the girl has no bio father in her life and self-esteem issues, which it's clear this girl had, it is quite often the case. It was certainly the case with me.
The stepfather should probably have not made such a big deal about the nude pictures, and likewise people posting here should probably not make such a big deal about the haircut. People make mistakes all the time. Teenagers commit suicide all the time. People who look for people to blame, and blame them without evidence, are sick. Life is full of tragedies. The last thing we need are busybodies spending their lives lazily looking for people to blame for tragedies, and blaming them on whims without evidence. Get a life.
Suicide is hardly ever caused by one issue. It's caused by brain chemicals. If something happens to go wrong, and suicide follows, you have to be very naive to blame the suicide on what went wrong, because the person was almost always planning suicide already. Even if she had the worst stepfather ever, suicide is caused by brain chemicals, not by stepfathers.
When your little girl, which is what 13 is, is sending nude pics to boys, you find out WHY, because it's a deeper issue than just liking a boy.
What deeper issue due you think it is? She reached puberty. The girl is not longer that "little" no matter what social conventions, moral values, etc. seem to suggest.
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Most callous and ignorant statement that I have ever seen outside of the politics forum. You need to do some research, sir. 
