Can't You See the Tears?
What does it take to be a good parent? How bad can parents be when their child runs away and denounces them to the Civil Guard as abusers? The child comp lained that the mother con tinuously controlled her child, not trusting it away from her except when at school. The child's phone was ta ken away and communication with its friends denied outside school. The child was given another phone and number by a fri end as a present. The child saved the little lunch money to have money in the phone. The discovery of that phone prompted a slap and verbal abuse. After years of threats and virtual imprisonments and psychological demeaning, the child decide d to run away and denou nce the sit uation. The child refused to go ba ck home, claiming the parents would kill it. The law gives the parent the right to control the child's m oveme nts and communications. Yet when does that right become an abuse ? A parent has the right to punish the child accordingly with what the ch ild has done...