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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 355000" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>As long as it is parent-child it is ONLY domestic abuse if the parent is hitting the child. It might be written up as domestic violence if a child hits a parent, but it will not be prosecuted unless the situation involved severe injury or death. I don't know why. We went through it with Wiz at several ages, the last being when I refused to let him live here. Even then, with clear marks on me (giant bruise in my chest/upper abdomen area from a head-butt, plus bruises on my back that all showed up about a week after the "incident" ) I ran a very HIGH risk of facing abandonment charges, child endangerment charges (because he would have no where to go if I hadn't called the cops - even though I DID call them), AND losing custody of both thank you and Jess. The judge even wondered, out loud, if maybe I should leave the home and husband could live there with all 3 kids. It was so outrageous that even my mother objected to that because it simply was making a bad situation worse.</p><p></p><p>It is reassuring to me to hear that in places where the rest of you live it is considered domestic violence for a child to hit a parent. My state really IS backward in some ways. (Like having a law that says parents are supposed to use corporal punishment - the wording of the statute says that a belt of a certain size can be used as long as the marks don't last more than a specified amt of time!!!!!)</p><p></p><p>Heck, here a battered spouse can refuse to press charges and nothing is done. It seems to have changed in other areas so that if an officer sees injuries or marks that are from domestic violence the state/city/county presses charges whether the victim wants it or not.</p><p></p><p>As of 2 years ago I was still the ONLY person in our area that the dv center had as a client who was there because their child abused them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 355000, member: 1233"] As long as it is parent-child it is ONLY domestic abuse if the parent is hitting the child. It might be written up as domestic violence if a child hits a parent, but it will not be prosecuted unless the situation involved severe injury or death. I don't know why. We went through it with Wiz at several ages, the last being when I refused to let him live here. Even then, with clear marks on me (giant bruise in my chest/upper abdomen area from a head-butt, plus bruises on my back that all showed up about a week after the "incident" ) I ran a very HIGH risk of facing abandonment charges, child endangerment charges (because he would have no where to go if I hadn't called the cops - even though I DID call them), AND losing custody of both thank you and Jess. The judge even wondered, out loud, if maybe I should leave the home and husband could live there with all 3 kids. It was so outrageous that even my mother objected to that because it simply was making a bad situation worse. It is reassuring to me to hear that in places where the rest of you live it is considered domestic violence for a child to hit a parent. My state really IS backward in some ways. (Like having a law that says parents are supposed to use corporal punishment - the wording of the statute says that a belt of a certain size can be used as long as the marks don't last more than a specified amt of time!!!!!) Heck, here a battered spouse can refuse to press charges and nothing is done. It seems to have changed in other areas so that if an officer sees injuries or marks that are from domestic violence the state/city/county presses charges whether the victim wants it or not. As of 2 years ago I was still the ONLY person in our area that the dv center had as a client who was there because their child abused them. [/QUOTE]
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