it's really painfully obvious that the most extreme thing some people can imagine a parent doing to a child is hitting them once out of uniquely monumental anger and feeling bad about it afterwards. I'm sorry but you have to understand that parents are, actively, at a larger scale than literally anyone else (chapter 3, perpetrator relationship): raping their kids for years on end (my childhood); beating them to the point they regularly fear for their lives (my friend's childhood); torturing them to death (candace newmaker); locking them up without any human contact, depriving them of every single human necessity (genie). There are countless stories like this, of exploitation and abuse in a thousand awful flavors, countless examples of all of these things, and you have to understand that these are not exceptions to the healthy, functional family; these abuses are all made possible, even probable (e.g. spanking, forced dressing/undressing, unwanted sexual comments about the body, unwanted invasion or denial of privacy) by the ownership and power parents are given over their children. You don't need exceptional wealth and power to wreak the worst kinds of violence on a child. All you need are the natural rights given for parenting one.

every single fucking study shows that parents are the biggest abusers of their own children in every fucking category but no one cares!!!!! we can't change anything about the world, we just need to whack-a-mole punish the mentally-predisposed-exceptional-degeneretes the bourgeois state manage to catch and prosecute, and oh of course give more fucking power to parents so they can Keep Kids Safe And Isolated Fanily Home Is Perfect Place To Put Child Safe Environment Good Size, but it's never going to fucking stop until something fundamentally changes!!!!!!!!! Children need political power, they need economic support, they need independence and they need rights. The right to say no to what adults want from you, the right to leave your parents, the right to be provided with food and a home.