Thursday, February 23, 2012

Blog #4 question 2 summary


2. Hooks notes that no one wants to call attention to women abusing children. After viewing the video below, why do you think people have done so little to calling attention to this abuse by mothers? What was your reaction to this video? Do you think it was abuse?



Abuse is abuse.  Males are viewed as stronger and more dominant parts of the family and are associated with abuse. Emotional abuse (mother screaming) is still abuse and could psychologically harm the child. There is a book about child abuse by a mother exclusively and it is called the Child called it Abuse by men is noticeable like bruises and cuts where abuse by women is more psychological from yelling, even though there are cases of women being physically aggressive as well.  Most headlines are just “Child abused” so that isn’t sexist,  there are plenty of cases where drugged up women beat their kids. The media calls attention to men because sadly, its almost expected (sometimes) Men usually have more stressful jobs and are more aggressive personality wise, also they are seen as the disciplinarian of the household.
Mothers seen as comforting and protective of children where dad is thought of as dominate and disciplinarian. Violence is associated exclusively with men.  No one wants to think that a women who gave birth to the child would be capable of hurting it. Nanny cams bring new light to abusive mothers

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