Re: Witnessing Child Abuse

In Reply to: Witnessing Child Abuse posted by Daniellez715 on May 12, 2002 at 18:22:28:

Once you start that ball rolling there isn't anything you can do to take it back. I've seen really good mothers lose their children based on perception. Think of this judges don't like to be told their wrong, they don't like to take things back and they are highly reluctant to tell other judges they are wrong. In our department of services systems the workers see awful things and have a tendency to look at things badly.

I try very hard not to yell and curse at my children. It's hard to be a parent and sometimes you are just fumbling through. Some people say "walk away" and get it together then come back. In a busy parking lot that is not an option. However, if you saw more than what you described then you should have called DSS. I know it may seem that parents don't care about crying children. Believe me the crying of my son sends me into such a whirlwind of guilt I can't even describe it. If I bent every time he cried, he'd be a spoiled brat and you'd wonder why I don't spank him. Take this with you. . . Maybe later that mother turned it around and told her son that she loved him and what she did and said was wrong but he shouldn't have done what he did and that two wrongs do not make a right. . . I know I've had that conversation with my son too many times.