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Almost everyone believes in live and let live, as long as you think, act and look just like them..
It's always those "other" people that are the problem, not those just like us.
-- Aycharaych
Well, no argument there. But few would admit that about themselves.
If I were to discover that my mild mannered good neighbor next door (a lawyer in a large firm) was spanking his young son and daughter when he thought they needed it, I would not call the child protective service here. Unless real evidence of abuse was present, I would leave them alone. How many here in Florida could say that? Few, I wager.
A nanny just had a man arrested on charges of child abuse due to seeing one bruise on the leg of a child. I know that at my local private school this year there have been over 20 kids fall and hurt a foot, leg, knee, or whatever. Seems kids can be clumsy.
Of course, at that age I was never clumsy, inattentive, ... ( I also have bridges for sale)
Note: Wife is a highly respected Doctor who would probably be able to tell if her son was abused via beatings.
