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Adrian Peterson Child Abuse

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Adrian Peterson, 29, a running back for the Minnesota Vikings disciplined his 4-year-old son with a switch and left a number of bruises and lacerations on his body. Peterson disciplined his son after the boy pushed another one of Peterson’s sons off a motorbike video game. The Vikings running back used a switch (a thin branch or a rod used for whipping) to discipline his child, resulting in bruises and lacerations on the boys back, legs, arms and buttocks. After the boy returns home to his mother in Minnesota, the bruises discovered during a routine doctor’s visit, the doctor says the injuries are consistent with child abuse. A child abuser should go to jail for doing such a horrible thing.
The United States has one of the worst records among nations. On the average between four and seven children are lost every day to child abuse and neglect. Three million reports of child abuse have been made in the United States. In 2012, state agencies found an estimated 686,000 victims of child mistreatment. Ischemic heart disease (IHD), chronic obstruct pulmonary disease …show more content…

Parents cite children’s aggression and failure to comply with a request as the most common reasons for hitting them. Children, endowed with wonderful flexibility and ability to learn, typically adapt to punishment faster than parents can escalate it, which helps encourage a little hitting to lead to a lot of hitting (Kazdin par 2). The negative effects on children include increased aggression and non-compliance the very misbehaviors that most often inspire parents to hit in the first place as well as poor quality of parent-child relationships (Kazdin par3). The direct experience of that momentary pause in misbehavior has a powerful effect, conditioning the parent to hit again next time to achieve the jolt of fleeing success (Kazdin par

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