Your opinion: boy punching a girl, ok or nay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I taught my sons that it is NEVER ok to hit a woman. Good luck to the PP that keeps insisting it's his right to defend himself if a woman hits him. If she presses charges he's up a creek without a paddle. No judge or jury will side with the man.

This is so old school. A lawyer would have a field day with this if these were adults. The guy would win hands down.

See Joe Mixon reference above. Just tried to find a verdict where the man was found not at fault for hitting a woman in "self defense". Not old school. Just reality.

[Anonymous]

As a parent of a boy, I'm less concerned about "okay, yay or nay" and what might happen to both kids as a result. (imagining that instead of being 12 they are sixteen when the boy is likely to be much larger).
To me, the question isn't about equality or who is right- it's about what is safe and who most likely to be hurt.
Over 1/2 of all female homicides are related to intimate partner violence--maybe everyone needs to learn better conflict resolution, maybe we need better gun laws, I don't know. But the fact is that in any conflict between a man and a woman, the woman is far more likely to be injured or killed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Just read all the answers. Here is some background. The boy is my oldest daughter's age. They've been in the same school since kindergarten, the boy is very nice and polite and very popular with a lot of friends, including my daughter. My daughter is friends with boy but not with the girl. She has mentioned that the girl answers "meanly" or "snappy" so she really doesn't have many friends at school. My daughter said that boy is very nice to girl all the time. I think the girl is very, very pretty, so boy may have a crush on her? Maybe that is why he was calling her by short version of name. My daughter teases her friends too, silly things. Her friends tease right back. It's like banter. But I was taught no one should hit anyone, much less a boy to a girl. But I was very surprised a girl reacted with such violence. The boy had 4 clear nail marks on his chest and a nasty scratch on his face.

A truly nice boy would have stopped calling the girl by the short name when she asked. He didn't . Instead he called her the name she didn't like again.
Not nice.

Also seems like this girl may have a social disorder.

True, calling her by a nickname was not nice. Scratching and punching was assault. VERY different things.

[Anonymous]

It's a good thing the girl learned a lesson now not to assualt anyone before it would become too late and she end up dead as an adult