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In reply to the discussion: Vikings: Adrian Peterson won't play until legal issues are resolved [View all]Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)47. A further examination of the case hints pretty strongly at
Peterson not "disciplining" his sons (because the age of four by all accounts is too young to properly process good/bad behavior and reward/punishment), as opposed to giving them frequent whippings to "harden them up", or some other twisted rite of passage...
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Vikings: Adrian Peterson won't play until legal issues are resolved [View all]
Crabby Appleton
Sep 2014
OP
"get the jury to look past the pictures"? What? He said he hit his kid with a stick, pictures
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#23
Like Jimmy Swaggart and all those weeping apologies...not just "sorry" but "sorry I
libdem4life
Sep 2014
#53
I think people are catching on that in order to play football you must like violence
AngryAmish
Sep 2014
#9
I don't need/want any one telling me & my hubby how to raise our two teenage sons
skeewee08
Sep 2014
#24
No one is telling you how to raise them. They're just saying you can't abuse them.
SunSeeker
Sep 2014
#32
He does not say he was sorry for using a switch. He denies that what he did was abuse.
SunSeeker
Sep 2014
#39
Texas indicted Peterson, so apparently this type of corporal punishment is not legal there.
SunSeeker
Sep 2014
#45