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Abusing Child Abuse

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To some, it may seem as though parents do not have control over what their tyke do, and that is completely false. Legal guardians are able to abuse their power that they possessive over their youngster. For instance, calling the cops on teenagers is not something new. Parents have been doing this type of thing for a while now, as a way to scare kids into obeying the adults. However, when are parents actually able to call the police on kids? When does it come to the point where all they are doing is abusing their powers as a parent to the point where it ruins the child’s future? According to what Reynolds has deemed as the best time to get the police to interfere in a parent and minor conflict, the first would be with the status offense. A status …show more content…

Now let’s say; for example, they have a group of friends that they have been recently hanging out with, and the father and mother do not really like them, even though the child’s friends have done nothing bad. Since the top notch student lives under mommy and daddy’s house they must obey them when they say they can no longer hang out with their group of friends. This violates another right that is given to a child. The right to make friends/group and hang out with them unless harmful to oneself or others. Here is the exception though, article three allows the parents to do this because they are worried about the child. As stated previously, article three is the main loophole that allows for any breaking of rights of minors to happen all because the parents are “worried” about the kid. It does not matter if they lives under their guardian’s roof, as long as they have custody over the minor, they are allowed to abuse article three however they …show more content…

Through the child’s perspective researchers have found that feelings of not being good enough lead to lack of inner self esteem and confidence. “No means no” was expressed throughout the their childhood. Threats intimidation and/or manipulation were used and made kids feel helpless. “Do as I say, not as I do” was also expressed a lot; resulting in, obedience or in other words they wait for the parents to tell them what to do. The parents lacked empathy for the developmental age, needs, and desires, which causes them to feel unimportant. Many negative emotions were a no no, and so were argumentative points from children’s perspectives; resulting in, thinking for themselves and their feelings are of no importance. Times parents apologized to their offspring were rare, which meant figuring out what’s right and wrong on their own, and the feeling of they can fix things if they only try harder. Lastly support for the kid’s fundamental developmental discovery was not supported, unless parents were able to take credit for it. This resulted in irresponsible kids, impulsive behaviors, and never feeling like they accomplished or deserved the accomplishments they received (Mental Health Newsletter). Threats and manipulation were things some controlling parents used to get their child to obey them, well this is

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