I'm British and my country signed the Convention. If any British parents would openly defend this kind of behaviour towards a child, I'd admit to some measure of surprise, not to mention shock.
If you're going to point to the suffering of children in other countries to defend dickish parenting in the United States, I suggest that's a pretty weak position. I won't belabour the absurdity of such a defence, just use your imagination.
Well you know we're also against capital punishment. It's possible to oppose cruelty to children and capital punishment as the separate and unrelated evils they are.
It's easy to make fun of somebody who hates cruelty to children and to pretend they want to call the police every time a parent is unkind to a child. It's harder to admit that we should do better as parents, and that belittling children as many in this thread have done is the wrong way to make children's lives better.
