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    TheExperience: There is a difference, a BIG difference between wanting to correct a situation where a kid is screaming and a parent isn't doing anything, versus actu... more »
    fluxus flucker: When someone hurts your kid, animal instincts come to the surface. If someone intentionally hurt my kid, I'm pretty sure my mind would just take over ... more »
    Mina_da_mad_child: I would love to know the race of the mother and child. It sounds like complete arrogance prompted this man to feel entitled to beat a strangers child ... more »
    ekrub: In kid-time, a 30 minute run through Target seems like 2 hours. Active toddlers have a hard time sitting still in a basket for this long. This is wh... more »
    LucyPevensie: All hyperbole aside, can you imagine how shocking and horrifying it would be to experience this, either as the child who was assaulted, as her mother,... more »
    Keep it cool: What I want to know is how come everywhere I go in France, I almost never see a child crying. EVER. What is it about french child-raising that makes t... more »
    willwriteforfood: Funny, I had a conversation about crying children last night at work. One of my co-workers had picked up her kid from daycare and come back to work to... more »
    LucilleMcGillicuddy: I do not possess the language skills to describe how insane I would have gone on this freak if he had hit one of my kids. more »
    funkyspunk: I would have broke this mans hand if he dared to lay it on my daughter. He should have taken himself out of the situation if it bothered him to the po... more »
    LaComtesse: When I was little, my mother often warned me of "a bad man." "Don’t let go of my hand, or a bad man will take you." "Don’t talk to people you do... more »
    rednrowdy: what this man did is abominable, but i know i'm not alone when i get annoyed at people who bring their children to public places and just let the chil... more »
    lovecake: Hand to God I would have put him in the hospital, not jail. more »
    RosaNugglet: Someone (obviously disturbed) once whacked my daughter in the face with a newspaper for crying. I didn't hit back because I didn't want to teach my ki... more »
    boobookitteh: seems like a good time to drag out that Fran Lebowitz observation that being exposed to the annoying habits of other people is the meaning of the word... more »
    moodyonceamonth: If you think this is bad, you should see what he does to kids who won't stay off his lawn. more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: A woman once yelled at me in a grocery store for yelping. My mom says she yelled at me just like an adult would yell at another adult. Only problem wa... more »
    hortense: Cotton Hill, you are the worst. more »
    BreeDMN: All joking aside, anyone who would do something like this has serious mental issues. We've all been disturbed by crying or unruly children in public a... more »
    Flackette Goes Retro: I find screaming children on par with jackhammers and wailing badgers, but even I know you can't actually smack them (however much I may have the prim... more »
    greengrey: I'm sure that got the kid to stop crying! Once you hit a kid/baby, it totally shuts up! Ugh. more »
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    Get Off My Spawn!

    Roger Stephens, 61, has been charged with felony cruelty to children for allegedly slapping a crying 2-year-old girl in an Atlanta Walmart, telling her mother, "If you don't shut that baby up, I'll shut her up for you." [AP]
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    Angry Women In The Workplace Seen As "Less Competent" Than Men