Childrearing
Not Wanting Your Kid To Join A Gang Is Great, But Beating Them And Putting The Video On Facebook Isn’t
Flint, Michigan is not an easy place to raise children. It has been named The Most Dangerous City in America numerous times. Flint’s unemployment rate is 16 percent. There is widespread drug use and gang activity. I think a lot of parents with young kids worry about them getting involved in gangs, and want to scare them into staying away from them. But this is so not the way to do it, and this makes me think we have a lot of parents out there now who think using their “tough love” disciplinary methods and posting the videos online will get them their own sort of fame and notoriety. Did these people just not realize what they were doing was grotesquely wrong and also a crime? It scares me to think of how they were treating this child when they weren’t filming him.
The sad irony of this case is that April is Child Abuse Prevention month. I guess the mother and grandmother in this case didn’t get that memo.
(Image: MINBCnews video)