Reply #113: My kid has never gotten physical with me.

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And I am married to her father and we aren't going through marital difficulties, nor am I going through menapause. If my daughter freaked out and started screaming at me and shoving me even though I told her to stop and she wouldn't, while her father was watching and did nothing, I might do the wrong thing and slap her in the face. I sympathize with this woman because her bad marriage was affecting her entire family, and she made one mistake and during a meltdown smacked her kid. The reason the police came was because her husband called them on her. Even I know how to handle a person who drank to much, without calling the police and getting the system involved. It certainly helped him to achive the upper hand in their domestic issues and to put her completely under his control. The daughter totally sides with her mother and wants her father out of the house. DYFS never removed the children from the home and it was the husband who made the accusation of her threatening him, and the only evidence of any threat when the police got there, was that she was angry at having the cops called on her by her husband. They didn't have any evidence of any fight or threat other than his word. And the reason I know so much about it is because during the aftermath of this, I have been helping with the younger kid and I see this mom every day. I hear all about it, and I heard the argument when it happened. No one is perfect, but these kids are not at risk of violence, they just need their parents to break up and move on, which they can't do right now due to DYFS.