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patriots (0-1) @ vikings (1-0)
outside in tcf, and patriots never lose two in a row - we'll have to see if we can buck the trend
need to get pressure on brady and then control the game with adrian
go vikings!
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Devilzsidewalk wrote:If it was a belt, he'd be fine, but cutting skin w/ what is basically a whip is taking it up a notch. He won't do time or anything like that; safest bet is they dismiss or defer charges on the agreement that he takes some sort of anti-spazz parenting class.
Devilzsidewalk wrote:A lot of people are going to say these injuries are way beyond discipline and clear-cut child abuse, and a lot of people are going to say it's just classic discipline like they got when they were kids. I think it's a gray area; I don't know if we're at that spot yet in society where we can call that child abuse.
We haven't made a clear distinction between discipline that hurts and discipline that injures. We know deep-seeded bruising is synonymous with child abuse, but what about these pictures - they look bad with the scabbing and such, but they're obviously superficial surface injuries. When I was a kid, I had marks like those on my arms perpetually from harassing the cat. I don't know, I'm not ready to crucify AD on this.
I'm going to be interested to hear what people say on this. The Ray Rice thing, everybody went 1 way on it because very few had to stand up for their right to knock their significant others the **** out, but I bet this is going to be uncomfortably close to some old school parents own forms of discipline and they're going to stand up for themselves because they don't want to view themselves as child abusers.