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Maybe not as big a deal as when Michael Jordan said those words but pretty damn close. This article and video made me think about discipline. The video was difficult to watch and my initial reaction was "what a fucking piece of shit!" Never mind the police charges, or non-charges as it turns out, but the reaction by people. I read some of the comments people wrote and I believe the generation in which you were raised directly correlates to your stance on this video. Some people said it was just discipline while others thought it was full on child abuse and throw both they asses in jail. I was spanked as a child and have no fundamental problems with spanking, that's my guess as I have no children but I don't feel like spanking is child abuse. My problems with this are the fact that both parents had to get their "licks" in. It wasn't enough the child be punished, each felt they NEEDED to line up and give her a good whack. My next problem is the father was beating her because she wouldn't turn over to get her spanking. To be clear I said I don't believe spanking is child abuse but I mean spanking someone on their ass in a purposeful manner, I do believe repeatedly hitting a child on their legs is child abuse. She was not listening to what he was telling her so I have no problem making her bend over. The fact that he was so antagonistic towards her asking her to keep it up and he will just keep hitting her was very disturbing as well. To me this is child abuse and the fact that the Police can't or won't prosecute this guy is ridiculous. One of the comments someone left was "well I bet she won't do that again." This is a fantastically stupid statement. By that same rationale if he had shot her dead that would have been a suitable punishment as well cause guess what, "I bet she won't do that again." People are always going to disagree whether spanking is child abuse and I fall into the not child abuse category but this was way over the top, in my opinion.