Geez I was just thinking that under that criteria I was abused, Heck I remember a couple of times when me and my old man would actually be throwing fists in the back yard.
My parents didn't always go to spanking or swatting, but that nuclear option was always there and hanging over our heads.
We wouldn't get spanked for bad grades for example, that was a grounding. I would get all kinds of warnings before the red button was pushed, but I can safely say that it wasn't a light swat on the butt.
But under the criteria above, I was a massive abuse victim.
Some of these studies that tend to label things from the deep past by modern terms are bogus and traps in nature.
I am absolutely on board with the sexual classfications. But if you look at the beat downs I took from my siblings, and the spankings from my parents for example, I should be a serial killer.
I honestly don't think its a spanking that entails physical abuse, I firmly believe that its how its handled by the parent that could construe abuse.
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