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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by axtscz on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:46PM (#13102420)
No, I'm 20 and from the US, and never would've dreamed of calling my parents a word like this. I mean never. We may of had disagreements but this was one line I would never cross.
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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by rtpg on Sunday December 04, 2016 @07:29PM (#13102586)
Similar experience but I know this exists. Some people going through their teens get pretty cruel.

Definitely a minority

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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by Mz on Sunday December 04, 2016 @07:31PM (#13102588)
Sometimes, they are "cruel" in response to having been subtly (or not so subtly) treated cruelly themselves.
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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by rtpg on Sunday December 04, 2016 @10:02PM (#13103100)
Definitely, I didn't mean to discount the agency of the kid. There are many more abusive households than we'd like to admit.
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