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I had no choice because his behavior was so out of control. People would come up to me in supermarkets when he was two and say, "Why don’t you spank him, why don't you just spank him?" He was putting holes in walls at age two and it was outrageous, his behavior was so outrageous that I mean I had to be a total idiot not to recognize it. I didn’t get any support because his paternal grandparents said, "Oh, he’s just being a boy. You know and he’s doing this because you’re a single mother and because you work full-time." But, I knew there was something wrong, when he was one and a half he beat up a six-year-old, pummeled. I knew that was not normal behavior.

 

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