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Child Slavery is Legal in United States: Right to Beat, Emotionally Abuse and Brain Wash Children in the US

By SkyeDanzer, published Jul 09, 2008
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Parents have the right to beat; emotionally abuse and brain wash children in the US. If you have a tender heart this is not the article you want to read. Not many people like to hear the hard ugly facts about child slavery in the United States today. Yet, child slavery is happening in virtually every neighborhood, regardless of race, economic status or educational background.

Child Slavery: Emotional Abuse

There are some homes that children are screamed at and told all sorts of things on a daily basis. These children truly believe that the emotional abuse they endure is not abuse at all. The yelling is because they misbehaved and deserved it. They have such low self-esteem that it is frightening.

But can you have someone intervene? For older children that have endured years of emotional abuse and been emotional slaves to parents, the answer is no. If an older child states that they will not talk in a therapy session (court ordered or not) there is nothing that a therapist can do to help the child.

In the rare instance that someone intervenes to help the emotionally abused child, the child is still in the presence of the abuser daily. The child slave owner doesn't want a healthy child. They want a slave that is going to listen to every command and order. The slave owner parent will continue to emotionally abuse the child. Some will even threaten older children that if they speak out in therapy sessions, they will be severely punished.

Who is the child to believe? It is only natural that they are going to believe the lies and threats of the child slave owner. After all, no-one has been able to stop these monsters earlier in the child's life. The child or teen then listens to the child slave owner, who is their parent, and refuses to allow the therapy to work for them.

Yet, in the United States it is perfectly legal for you to call your child or teen any name that you want. You can threaten them with anything that you want. Why not? After all, children are not people. They are simply property in the United States.

Takeaways
  • Child slavery legal in the United States
  • There is no legal age to stop corporal punishment
  • Child slave owners can slap, shove and emotionally abuse kids of all ages
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Do you not think that you are being a bit overly-dramatic? Yes, I am sure that there are some children who are forced to do what you have stated as being "child slavery", yet I cannot help but feel that in moderation, it teaches responsibility as well as can be seen as a duty. Your parents house you, clothe you, provide nourishing food for you and yet you expect the child to do so little in return? Obviously this is not the case for all but the way you make it sound through your article; it is as if every child is in imminent danger of become a slave to their parents. You play on the emotions of those who are not so nostalgic about their childhood. Who honestly hasn't, at least once, yelled at their child or someone who you love? My parents paid me in kind, I did chores, they took care of me. It was never as a "slave" to them. As for CP, culture, tradition and one's own beliefs are factors. Beating a child is never right, but a light spank on the bum does not a tramatic experience make

Posted on 08/11/2008 at 3:08:20 AM

 
If I had to be a child again, I'd choose my own childhood with all its verbal abuse at home and school, physical discipline at home and school, demands for performance up to objective standards at home and school, "hardships" like my parents' choice of a car-free lifestyle (yes, there are environmentalist Republicans), not to mention "dangers" like being able to walk and swim and ride bicycles, and even the freedom to feel bored in primary school and traumatized in middle school and totally ticked off about missing opportunities while home schooled without being diagnosed as "attention-deficient, social-phobic, depressed, and hostile," over what the politically correct school of parenting is offering children today.

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 11:07:11 AM

 
No surprise that this is a controversial article, but I am surprised that it overlooked the most hazardous form of legal child abuse: "medicating" children to control their behavior. Like most of us I got yelled at and called names, was required to do chores including babysitting, was spanked a few times at home and at school, was also deprived of the latest fad items, was sent to a school where I was bullied for a year, was home schooled against my will for a year, and was even placed on stage and introduced as a "little Republican" before I knew what that meant...and when I consider the alternative that existed back then (foster care), I'm glad. And when I consider the trendy new alternative of forcing children to act "happy" with antidepressants, I'm gladder still, though also nauseated.

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 11:07:30 AM

 
Interesting how people can have opposing opinions and simply lower themselves to personal attacks, instead of simply disagreeing. LOL

Posted on 07/14/2008 at 11:07:21 AM

 
I have to admit, calling it "slavery" to have kids doing yard work with mowers is an insult to the kids in countries where there is slavery. This doesn't even begin to compare to the suffering endured by the boys and girls who are sold as sex slaves. Most kids don't do chores at all today, and the result is lazy kids who feel entitled. What about farms and the kids who work on them? Most people I know who grew up having to do a lot of hard work credit their success to it.

Posted on 07/14/2008 at 10:07:03 AM

 
The stupidity of this article is unbelievable. Maybe you should think about therapy, you seem to have issues and your thinking is warped.

Posted on 07/14/2008 at 5:07:24 AM

 
Going to have to agree with Watcher here, this is pretty terrible.

Posted on 07/14/2008 at 4:07:53 AM

 
I can't tell if this is satirical or not? Is it a joke? If it is then not funny (just poorly written humor). If it isn't a joke then she is an idiot.

Posted on 07/14/2008 at 2:07:06 AM

 
I'm going to guess that you a) are not a parent b) are not a social worker and c) do not have a degree in early childhood education or social work.

Posted on 07/13/2008 at 2:07:25 PM

 
Child abuse is obviously a problem in our modern day society, but I don't agree that some of the examples you used can really be classified as child abuse or slavery. Gardening can teach children a lot, as long as they are carefully supervised and not worked too hard. Sophie

Posted on 07/13/2008 at 10:07:07 AM

 
why have the child born without preparing to raise them well?Even animal knows to take care of their breed, let alone human, It is outrageous and unfathomable. In modern world today, it is not like we can not access to contraception, abortion, pregnancy prevention measure, etc. It is totally against humanity values.

Posted on 07/13/2008 at 3:07:31 AM

 
You said: "Not presenting anything as cold hard facts. This is an editorial/opinion piece with examples of what everyone sees in everyday life of mistreatment of children and taking advantage of kids." Thing is, you need facts to support your opinion, at least to make the claim about, quote, child slavery. This article is way too generalized and therefore cannot make a substantial argument. Because it's so generalized, the tone is not very authoritative and lacks a lot of credibility. What about some statistics and testimonies? The title of the article is also VERY misleading. Here I was thinking along the terms of families below the poverty line, but this was only about irresponsible parenting. I must say, though, I do appreciate the article's power (of sorts) to elicit such passionate responses from CPs here.

Posted on 07/12/2008 at 11:07:29 PM

 
I have never once heard of anyone having a child get up in the middle of the night to care for another child. I have heard of people having children regularly assist with younger family members, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as those children still have time to be children and aren't doing all of the childcare. Again, except in the case of the Duggars, I've never heard of children doing most of the childcare for a younger sibling. I'm curious as to where you've actually seen this as I doubt it's very common at all. I was emotionally abused, continuously called names and cursed at...and that is MUCH different from a parent finally screaming "GOD DAMN IT, STOP!" in the supermarket. When the parent slaps her kid across the face and screams "Stupid Bitch," as happened to me when I was a child and as I saw happening to child in the store once too, that's abuse. Kids need to be treated like people, but your article just came across the wrong way.

Posted on 07/12/2008 at 7:07:48 PM

 
I was referring to childrent that are REQUIRED to get up in the middle of the night and take care of younger siblings. Children who are REQUIRED to regularly change diapers, feed bottles and prepare food for younger siblings as free nannies. Yelling at children is one thing. To continuously call children curse words and deragatory names is what I was talking about. There needs to be a middle ground instead of kids being treated as property. Why is child abuse of any type tolerated and accepted in our society to the point that so many people are standing and defending it? Just because there are no physical marks or requirement for a doctor's care, then it is not abuse? Great discussion!

Posted on 07/12/2008 at 7:07:34 PM

 
By the way, my oldest helps out with my youngest because he WANTS to. We are staying right now with his grandmother and uncles, who are a few years older than him. We do ask them to help out with the kids on occasion. It's not child slavery to ask an 8 year old to take 20 minutes to give a sibling a bottle so that mom can shower for the first time in 3 days, eat a warm meal (finally), take care of another child, or god, just sit outside and have a phone conversation with an friend. Oh wait, I forgot, the needs of parents don't matter because parenting is all about meeting every one of your child's wants and letting them play all the time, because if you ask them to help contribute to the family's well-being by sacrificing 20 minutes of play, you are a slave driver. Give me a break.

Posted on 07/12/2008 at 7:07:42 PM

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