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Cake day: February 28th, 2025

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  • Some parents are abusive and deserve what’s coming to them, but pre-teens don’t really understand or know what abuse really is and what it takes for the state or government to get involved.

    An example is a parent yelling at her daughter. Taking her phone and forcing her to have no outside contact with her friends for say the weekend.

    Now, that kid will call that child abuse. Tell all her friends that she is getting abused. Post about it when she gets her phone back, etc. Convince her friends to build up courage to call child services or seek out adults that appeal to those vulnerabilities. Those adults turn those into something else and exploit them sexually or in some other twisted means.

    I’ve seen this with one of my own kids’ friends. I’ve worked in the state child care system and have seen abuse with the unfortunate outcomes.

    Real abuse should be exposed, but kids can twist punishments into abuse, and social media can reinforce this. Not improving the relationship, but driving it apart. That’s what I was trying to convey.