What is up with child services?

You do not have the right to hurt your children, even if you call it 'discipline'. Children aren't possessions, they're people. And if you mess them up too much, society will have to deal with their mental breakdowns and criminal behavior once they've grown up.

Rather than getting indignant that they dare tell you what to do, take a look at what kind of people you want your kids to be and what kind of life you want them to have. Is the way you're raising them really going to help make that dream true? Think about how you were parented - did your parents act the way you do? How did it make you feel? Do you think it helped you be the person you want to be?

It's hard to change how you see things, but your kids are worth it!

Where do you live where child services is "up everyone's grill"? I know a lot of parents and none of them have been investigated by child services. You pretty much have to be starving your kid or hitting them until they have bruises to actually get in trouble with them.

I agree! As long as you're not injuring or abusing your child, you as the parent should have the right to discipline your child as you see fit. Their goal is to keep children safe from harm, but often times they overreact to small incidents and overlook bigger ones. Good parents are scrutinized for trivial things like occasionally spanking their child while some other children, especially children in foster care are slipping through the cracks and living with all sorts of abuse that no child should ever have to live. They really need to get their priorities straight.

Children aren't objects. They're fully developed, living breathing sentient beings. Once you give birth, and you choose to keep your baby, you're going to have to abide by a rather LAX code in how you treat them.

If you have to assault your children or likewise to parent, you're not a parent. You're an abuser, and you don't deserve children. The kids should be removed and you should be fixed.

I am a social worker. My view is that you can discipline your children as you see fit as long as you are not denying them basic care, are not causing them injury, or the child is not in severe emotional distress/developing a psychiatric disorder because of the discipline.

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