Uhm as I watched this on tv I understood: father slapped the boy because he crossed the streets, running away from his family, without keeping an eye on cars coming his way, pretty much it.
Well I agree, slapping constantly a child is not a good thing, but in some situations when a child is constantly not giving a shit about order and respect, a little slap won't hurt you.
I received from my dad something like 4 slaps in my entire childhood, and I tell ya I'm not traumatized, and of course I deserved that for what I've done... once I put something on fire in my kitchen lol.
I guess sending him to jail is a bit too much.
Not arguing the way people teach kids in sweden, but what should have I said when I saw back in 2004 in stockholm a couple of swedish parents letting their 1 year old little boy running away from them and not giving a shit?
Called the police ? yelling at them "shitty parents"? no dude I didn't and I didn't care.
That little child could have died falling from a stairway with no protection (just a handrail that was taller than him) in skeppsholmen ?
That wasn't the first time I saw something like that in a northern country, seems like parents in scandinavian countries are not apprehensive as over here, somehing that over here is seen as something not so good, something as "you don't give a shit about your child".
Anyway nothing against swedes, they're lovely people as Ola proved to be when I met him.
I think thing is exagerated.
