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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 355075" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Here in Canada, if a child of legal age to be criminally charged (12 and up), if a parent calls police after being physically assaulted by their child, that child is arrested for assault. </p><p>I remember during my foster care off/on years, I was briefly home with my bipolar (unmedicated and out of control) mother. My brother had started a fight with me. It got ugly. My brother hurt me pretty badly. My mother entered the room and came up and shook me (I was crying and screaming for her to help me) and told me to "get a grip, it didn't hurt". I had in fact, before her eyes, been bodily flung across the room into a large cabinet, hit the corner mid back and crumpled to the floor. No clue I had violence in me, I reached up and slapped my mothers face (open handed slap across her cheek) and screamed at her "Get a grip, it didn't hurt". And ran upstairs, grabbed a get away bag I always had stashed in my closet and took off out of the house. I was found by police 3 days later hiding in my friends basement and arrested for assaulting my mother. Quite frankly, regardless of how or why it all happened, I deserved it. I had assaulted her. I was 13, so of arrestable age. Ironically, my brother who was 15 at the time, was not charged for assaulting me. It was considered a normal sibling problem. </p><p></p><p>The world is a strange place. I believe that once a person is old enough to charged with a offense, any physical attack on anybody at all should be illegal and should be prosecuted. I find it sad that so many parents out there cower in silence. I guess its right up there with all the kids out there who cower in silence. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>(PS. I swear I've never slapped a person again!!!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 355075, member: 4264"] Here in Canada, if a child of legal age to be criminally charged (12 and up), if a parent calls police after being physically assaulted by their child, that child is arrested for assault. I remember during my foster care off/on years, I was briefly home with my bipolar (unmedicated and out of control) mother. My brother had started a fight with me. It got ugly. My brother hurt me pretty badly. My mother entered the room and came up and shook me (I was crying and screaming for her to help me) and told me to "get a grip, it didn't hurt". I had in fact, before her eyes, been bodily flung across the room into a large cabinet, hit the corner mid back and crumpled to the floor. No clue I had violence in me, I reached up and slapped my mothers face (open handed slap across her cheek) and screamed at her "Get a grip, it didn't hurt". And ran upstairs, grabbed a get away bag I always had stashed in my closet and took off out of the house. I was found by police 3 days later hiding in my friends basement and arrested for assaulting my mother. Quite frankly, regardless of how or why it all happened, I deserved it. I had assaulted her. I was 13, so of arrestable age. Ironically, my brother who was 15 at the time, was not charged for assaulting me. It was considered a normal sibling problem. The world is a strange place. I believe that once a person is old enough to charged with a offense, any physical attack on anybody at all should be illegal and should be prosecuted. I find it sad that so many parents out there cower in silence. I guess its right up there with all the kids out there who cower in silence. :( (PS. I swear I've never slapped a person again!!!) [/QUOTE]
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