Child Abuse Damange
Submitted by nnd29 on September 7, 2008
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The Damage of Child Abuse
There has always been a fine line between discipline and child abuse. What a parent thinks is right may not always be what is healthy for a child. “The Broken Chain,” by M.F.K. fisher is an essay about a young girls history of child abuse. Though many people feel that disciplining a child physically is acceptable, abuse is abuse!
In “The Broken Chain,” M.F.K. Fisher feels she wasn’t abused as a child. She saw being smacked was a good punishment for mistakes she would make. Is that always a good reason to smack your child? M.F.K. Fisher wasn’t being punished when she was young, she was being abused. She writes in her essay, “I would be smacked five or eight or ten sharp taps from a wooden brush hairbrush.” Being hit eight to ten times with a wooden brush would be traumatizing for a nine-year-old girl. Hitting your child is not...