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Just watched the original. Wow. What an a$$hole.

My dad was a cop and did pretty much the same thing. Is there something about law enforcement and a$$hats?

>> ^Kofi:

Just watched the original. Wow. What an a$$hole.
My dad was a cop and did pretty much the same thing. Is there something about law enforcement and a$$hats?


Power?

Check out her necklace! Heh!

i find it difficult to trust her...

i'm glad she's happy and all now, but... the whole thing went viral and we still don't know very much of the details

i watched the original and didn't think it was that bad, imho... i routinely got far worse and for less as a kid - i'd get a hiding like this for just throwing the cat in the koi pond... or a miserable report card, etc

there are some disturbing aspects as the possible motivations for the original upload:

-her dad had recently cut off her (adult) financial support after she dropped out of college
-he'd also recently denied/restricted her use of the mercedes-benz he'd provided for her
-the mother is in an ongoing court battle re. alimony/benefits and assessing her share of the value of his pension
-the timing of the upload was suspiciously close to the end of of the statute of limitations in their home state

let's keep in mind that growing up in the '70s and '80s was pretty different from growing up today... and that there are myriad shenanigans you can now pull with audio/video to build/strengthen a civil case

granted, i don't lay a hand in anger on my own kids, but that's me... and now -- still too early to say if my parents' tough love made me a better person, but it certainly didn't damage me

What the fuck, seriously. So what if some people have had it worse? I looked up the video being talked about and skipped to the middle to see what it was about; I was unable to watch more than five seconds of it, and this is coming from someone who was abused in practically every possible way during childhood. What's shown in the video is not "tough love", it's child abuse, plain and simple.

>> ^Diogenes:

i find it difficult to trust her...
i'm glad she's happy and all now, but... the whole thing went viral and we still don't know very much of the details
i watched the original and didn't think it was that bad, imho... i routinely got far worse and for less as a kid - i'd get a hiding like this for just throwing the cat in the koi pond... or a miserable report card, etc
there are some disturbing aspects as the possible motivations for the original upload:
-her dad had recently cut off her (adult) financial support after she dropped out of college
-he'd also recently denied/restricted her use of the mercedes-benz he'd provided for her
-the mother is in an ongoing court battle re. alimony/benefits and assessing her share of the value of his pension
-the timing of the upload was suspiciously close to the end of of the statute of limitations in their home state
let's keep in mind that growing up in the '70s and '80s was pretty different from growing up today... and that there are myriad shenanigans you can now pull with audio/video to build/strengthen a civil case
granted, i don't lay a hand in anger on my own kids, but that's me... and now -- still too early to say if my parents' tough love made me a better person, but it certainly didn't damage me

@hpqp: you may be right... and i may be way off base

i guess in my mind 'child abuse' is systematic, and this could have been just a one-off

as i said, i routinely got worse than this... but that was going on forty years ago

we all see things differently through an often-distorted lens of our own memories and experiences... and to me, something just doesn't ring true here - of course you can disagree... your opinion is just as valid as mine

let me give you an example of where i'm coming from though: my folks were very much a couple of 'spare the rod, blabla' parents - when i was naughty (which was often), i'd be physically punished

just before my 16th birthday, my parents filed for divorce - on separate occassions each of my parents brought me with them to their respective lawyer's office, where i was asked to give a statement regarding the other parent's abuse of me -- i asked each of them 'what does it matter?' and their responses were that it would help that parent's bargaining position and eventual financial settlement - each parent offered me incentives to speak out on solely their behalf

i refused, and petitioned the court for my own emancipation at age 16, which was granted

sooo... for me, it's not whether or not that what happened to hillary adams is 'child abuse' (this can be so subjective, especially when it's a single instance captured on video)

rather, i'm suspicious of the motivation and manner of her coming forward now - she's obviously a canny individual (the hidden video camera is our first indication of that), and add to that the facts i mentioned in my first post

it just strikes a chord with me, remembering how dirty i felt while my parents tried to involve me in their revenging themselves on each other