Abuse

Don't hit your kids. Just don't fucking try it. This news post was going to be for plugging a few of my favorite webcomics. Now, after hearing the screams outside my window and seeing a father beat his daughter into the ground before shoving her into the car to take her to school, I know what today's topic is going to be about.

I was hit as a kid as a disciplinary measure. I'll tell you this, it never taught me crap. Just that violence makes people do what you want them to, because after I was hit I did what I was told, and then later I was hit again when I refused.

I don't know anyone who hits their kids now, don't know people whose parents hit them outside a little smack here and there. But beating your child into the ground? That's sickening. I called the cops on the bastard. Even a disciplinary attack that forces the kid into the ground and to scream so loud the whole damn neighborhood can hear is just unnecessary.

The house where this was from is full of drug dealers. They've even gotten more bold than they have in the past few years. Now there's at least 10 cars over there at a time and the place hasn't been stung just yet. It's disgusting. I sit on my porch and watch buyer after buyer after buyer go to the door, knock, slide some money beneath the door and then something slide back out. I've seen people without cars walk over with snacks already in hand before they buy their crap.

I'm tired of seeing lives ruined, I'm tired of fearing for my life and my mom doesn't care. She seems to think that to keep calling the cops will keep us safe. They've already yelled at her once to stop calling the cops, but she hasn't, neither have I. But at the border to mexico they can very easily find a way to get back at us. Somehow someway. But right now I think they're just building themselves up, and it's working. It needs to stop.

Make it stop.