Child Abuse Problem Is Getting Caught?

When the topic of the child endangerment charges against New York lawyer Madlyn Primoff came up on Fox News today on "Fox and Friends," Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson reacted to the story by making yet another dumb statement that also highlighted the difficulty of drawing the line between permissible parenting and child endangerment and abuse.

The short clip from Fox News' "Fox and Friends" that I use in this video was recorded from its broadcast on May 8, 2009.

The public domain mug shot of Madlyn Primoff in this video was fairly used from the Inside Edition webpage at http://www.insideedition.com/lib/images/specialreports/2872/042409-madlyn-pri...

Section 35.10 of the New York Penal Code titled "Justification; use of physical force generally" to which I refer in this video is available at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/nycodes/PEN35.10TXPEN035.10.html

And, section 563.061 of the Revised Statues of Missouri titled "Use of force by persons with responsibility for care, discipline or safety of others" to which I refer in this video is available at http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/C500-599/5630000061.HTM

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[mainestategop]

Another out of context Video. and the liberals are going after Breitbart ...

[LiberalViewer]

@mainestategop wrote: "Another out of context Video. and the liberals are going after Breitbart"

Actually, Andrew Breitbart's webpage edited video out of context to materially change its meaning. See, eg, my video titled:

"Fox News Shirley Sherrod 2 Wrongs Make a Right Fallacy?"

In my video here, in contrast, the clip of Gretchen Carlson shows her full statement and my narration accurately provides the context.

I hope that helps clear up your misunderstanding and

thanks 4 commenting :-)

[sswiderski]

Hitting verses Spanking is the difference!

[serumclx]

stupid people have stupid kids. it's like if you get too golden labradors they have puppies you expect the puppies to be German shepherds of course not going to be golden labradors

[Georgie1126]

I know these people, and quite frankly it was all the mums fault. The eldest left the youngest alone in a dodgy area....

[iasedu]

Just take away their iPhone, that satisfies all of the definition.

[colossus999]

@sswiderski Your comment confuses me because spanking is a subcategory of hitting.

[mainestategop]

@yamasta103 not silly enough to support a system that fails everytime.

[yamasta103]

@mainestategop You silly Conserative:P

[GimmieUtoob]

First question: I draw the line between the parental actions defined as one and the other as shown by good judgment, or more effective, the solid evidence.

Second question: No

[Trund27]

My god some of the comments here are rude!

[dumbnetworks]

nobody thought that the kids maybe deserved that punishment? maybe she was close to home and it was a neiborhood where usually the kids go out alone anyway. I don't like fox news but I don't see the problem here...

[Stacyhannah1]

Or until some scum bag that you publicly defended was out on the streets and picked up one or both of the daughters she kicked out of the car and potentially harmed the girls. I do believe that Gretchen misspoke and obviously would have made a much better parenting decision than the mother who neglected her children.