Forcing His Son to Go to Cram School? Wanted Him to Start Taking Responsibilities for Himself? The Sixth Grade Student Hollered: Sue My Parents for Domestic Violence

Family dispute, caused by the parents’ and the child’s differences of perceptions, from the Front Page Sections, translated…

“I want to sue my parents for domestic violence”, a sixth grade boy, Chen, walked into the subprecinct alone and told the officers, he’d cried to them about how his parents forced him to take up cram school sessions so he can get into a private middle school, but he’d wanted to go to a public middle school with the rest of his friends; the boy’s father however, told a different story, that he’d originally wanted to be admitted into a private middle school, that, was why he’d asked his parents to send him to cram school, but after the parents paid the fees, he’d, changed his mind, the father insisted that he kept taking the cram school sessions, so he could learn to take responsibilities for his own actions.  And the female police officer spent three hours, consoling with the sixth grader, and he’d finally decided, to drop the claims of domestic violence against his own parents, and the parents led him home.

The eleven-year-old boy, Chen, at eight in the morn on the 23^rd, walked into the subprecint on his own, started crying to the female officer on duty, said he’d wanted to sue his parents for “domestic violence”.  After the female officer heard, she’d become nervous, but after she’d examined him and saw no external injuries on him, she’d felt a bit relieved.

As the female officer tried calming the boy down, she’d asked his name, and checked the household registries, and notified the parents, and asked them to come to the subprecinct to deal with it.  The child’s father rushed anxiously into the subprecinct, told the boy, “Say what you want to say clearly”, as the boy heard, he’d started crying again, the female officer saw, and led the child into the office, temporarily separating him with his family member.

The boy told the female officer, “They kept pushing me to study, I feel a lot of stress”, he’d just wanted to go to a regular middle school, but his parents kept pushing and urging him to go to cram school so he could go to a private middle school, after he’d done talking, he’d started crying again, said he’d just wanted to go to the school that his other classmates are going to.

The boy’s father said, that at the beginning, it was the son who’d asked to go into a private school, that, was why he’d taken him to the cram school for the classes, but, right after registering for the cram school sessions, the son changed his mind on going to private school; the father wanted him to start taking responsibilities for his own actions, and, he’d gone to cram school for a few days, then, on the 23^rd, he’d left the house, but didn’t go to the cram school, instead, he’d come to the subprecinct to report to the cops about being abused.

The officers worked hard, to console both the parents and the child, they’d first asked the parents, to try to understand what’s going on in their son’s mind, to communicate with him more, that forcing him to go to cram school may have the opposite effects they were aiming for.  As the female officer learned, that the boy had the intentions of becoming independent from his parents, she’d told him, that if he made the grades to get into a private school, then, he will be able to do just that; with the coming of age, the schools he would be attending may be farther and farther from his home, that this was normal.  The parents had paid for his tuition at the cram schools, that was for his benefit, and asked him to follow through with his plans, it’s also, for his benefit as well, after the boy heard, he’d changed his mind, and thanked the officers, with his parents, then, headed home.

And so, this, is one incident, how a kid wanted to defy the parents and went to the cops, and that just shows, how easily those kids can claim anything to the officers, and, as children get smarter by the generation, there would be more reports of “domestic violence” cases like this one I’m sure, but, the boy was just way too not yet mature enough to handle the outcomes of his own actions, and, the parents didn’t do anything wrong here!