Glorifying Domestic Abuse

Riots are going on in Baltimore right now. The video that is filling up my newsfeed right now is the video of a mother beating her adult son for rioting. My heart is conflicted over this. Part of me wants to cheer on the woman because someone needs to knock some sense into that young man and all of the craziness that is going on up there. But then there is the fact that that is ABUSE and a mom should never do that to her son. Yes, that small part of my heart realizes that that is the truth. I know Mom would be so proud of that woman because she beat her son publicly when he was doing something that he should not have been. In fact, Mom would probably be proud for a lifetime if she could have been the one in that video. I’m sure I will hear about that mother from Mom for many years to come. Child abuse has always been glorified by my mom. That must have been why she was so upset about me posting a song on  my Facebook that “glorified domestic abuse.” Only she could glorify domestic abuse -- by calling it raising godly children.