Man beats 13 year old daughter while mother films it- it goes viral with most approving

[Jackpine Radical]

11. You can absolutely bet that she had good reason to run away

in the first place. I have no doubt that her parents are monsters, and can only hope that the authorities intervene and remove her from that hellhole of a home.

And BTW I didn't watch the video. I have spent a lot of years working with both victims and perpetrators of every sort of abuse, and already have a massive overload of specific and detailed knowledge of what people are capable of doing to each other.

One final point--without excusing anything, I will comment that violence often perpetuates violence down the generations, and parental rage, originating in the parents' own childhood experiences, is often displaced onto their children. Obviously, this is not always the case; for every abused abuser there are others with equally brutal childhoods whose history of suffering leads them to abhor the thought of harming their own children or anyone else. It is only half in jest that I have sometimes commented that the two major products of abusive childhoods are abusers and psychotherapists.