Because it’s public humiliation??? From the Front Page Sections, translated…
A man, Song, because his sixth grade daughter stole money, he’d made her wear a sign that says, “I’m a thief” on her, took her to the local police substations, to ask the officers there to help discipline his own child. The officers warned Song that he shouldn’t insult his own daughter like so, and the officers will continue, following up on how the family is doing.
The Hsinbei Social Service’s Department’s Children and Teen Assistant Director, Yang stated, that this father approached the matter wrong, that he may have broken the laws on children and youth welfare, and he would be sentenced to a minimum of four hours of parenting course, up to a fifty hour long parenting class.
Based off of understanding, at around eleven o’clock in the evening on the 22nd, because the daughter was caught, stealing money from home, he was so angry, that he’d written a note that said, “I’m a thief”, and hung it around the daughter’s neck, then, took her to the local subprecinct.
As Song entered into the police subprecinct, he’d stated, “I don’t know how to discipline her”, hoped the officers can help him out; the officers saw, immediately took down the sign that Song had his daughter wore, and warned him, that his behavior may be damaging to the child’s psychological health, Song nodded in agreement and left, he’d left his daughter in the subprecinct, to think over what she did wrong.
After the female officer’s gentle consoling with her, the child was no longer tensed up, and stated, “I know what I did was wrong!”, then, the police called up the parents, to take her home again, and, before the mother took the child away, she’d reassured the police, that they will NEVER discipline the child in such manner again.
This just shows, how the system is spoiling the children rotten, and, guess what this kid had learned, if she’s really a bad child? That I can do whatever that is wrong, and my parents won’t be able to punish me as severely as I deserved to be punished, plus, I can call the cops, and, they’ll step in, to TELL my parents, that they’re doing it, all wrong! Granted, there may have been better ways this father could’ve disciplined the child, sure, but, I’d imagined, that this was NOT her first offenses, that, was why the father took such extreme measure to discipline her.