i did nt read that post..however i agree 1000% if a parent does that to a child
it is abuse! :)
I think it is abusive. Not to mention sick minded, crude, and repulsive. Who would shave someones head, FORCEFULLY?! Now, with parental authority, I would imagine you CAN make your daughter style her hair the way you want it styled. You are the mom/dad of the house. Make sure to give her SOME choice though!
Some religions actually force to cut or not cut hair.
i would say let your child grow up as they want to grow up. its their life not yours. i believe it is wrong for someone to take control of how someone wants to experes themselves in their own way its wrong for you to try and change the way they feel they should express themselves.
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I think it is abusive. Not to mention sick minded, crude, and repulsive. Who would shave someones head, FORCEFULLY?! Now, with parental authority, I would imagine you CAN make your daughter style her hair the way you want it styled. You are the mom/dad of the house. Make sure to give her SOME choice though!
Totally agree. Now if she’s five or six, then fair enough give her a haircut.
But at 10 upward and especially as I got from that post about the age of 15 it’s totally the kids choice.
If she is a tenager, then don’t you think it is right for her to choose her own style, I know how you feel and that it must be a shame you can’t do it anymore but you have to ley go, im sorry
Try babysitting for someone at work
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Not illegal but it’s really mean.
probably not illegal, and i dont think the courts would consider it child abuse, but it certainly is not respectful and will not do any good for your relationship with your daughter. better to set limits, but let teenagers make their own choices about their appearance
Not illegal. My kids can wear their hair any way they want, after they move out… tattoos are also taboo. Ears for girls are the only body piercings allowed. I paid for the house, I make the rules. When you turn 18 you can move out, pay your own bills, stay up all night and do whatever you want. If you’re 40 and live in my house you follow my rules.
that’s a fine attitude dr. ralph, except statistically your kids are more likely to have a really long list of serious problems. good luck with that.
Statistically my kids are doing exceptionally well. Two in college with jobs, one in high school and no problems. Lots of friends and emotionally well and happy. Rules don’t make all children rebel. I let them do just about anything, but they know how I feel about keeping your body sacred. It is a temple.
SOO ILLEGAL!!! i am a sixteen year old girl. we need freedom. whether its using the car or doing our own hair. letting your kid dye, cut, and style their hair as they please lets them know that you appreciate their opinions, and youre okay with their choices.
I don’t know where you get your statistics but most children with serious troubles have no father and no rules. Nice avatar though. Tebow for president!!!
Haha, Go Tebow!
Hm, I know it is “common knowledge” that kids with “no father and no rules” are going to have serious problems, but there is about 30 years of research on families (which is where I get my statistics from) that says that kids with parents who are too strict and have unreasonable rules are JUST as likely to have serious problems. To reduce statistical potential for problems, yes, parents need to have rules, but they must be reasonable to the child. I don’t think having rules about hair length are reasonable, and i know for sure that the research supports that. Whether a kid’s hair is a crew cut, shoulder length, or all the way down their back does not have much to do with whether they consider their body sacred.
You know what… all my sons have very short hair and I kid them about skinheads and white power. One son told me he wasn’t cutting his hair until he got a minibike and after so many months of having to wash and comb he went back to skinhead mode. Another time the same boy grew a Mohawk and he was 13 or whatever during summer break. He wore it to school the first day then cut it. Hair length is different from permanent decisions like tattoos and piercings. That’s why it is against the law until you are 18 without Parental Consent. Still if my daughter comes home with her head shaved she will not like the repercussions. It’ not illegal to cut your child’s hair or refuse to take them to the barber.
On the flip side an expensive lawyer can do anything. Shaving your daughters head could be child abuse in certain liberal states. Call.an attorney
a couple legal gray areas to keep in mind first, theres no law against you chosing the hair style but there are many child safety laws that would prevent you from forceing said hair style on your child. its strange but true, I know of a case where a parent made his child sit at the table until he ate his beans. the neighbors were there and for some reason child protection was called. its kinda the same idea. as a parent you can say “you will not leave this house with that *insert extreme fashion notion here* but if you actually try to physically stop the teenager from leaving it can rather quickly become a can of worms. for most people common sense prevails, but some believe anything more strict than telling your child to “go to time out” is abuse.
if she finds it difficult to make, she settle for reduction but not scraping.
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