Parents have basically unlimited rights to do whatever they want to their child as long as it doesn't leave marks. CPS is supposed to prevent abuse but between institutional racism, limits on their oversight, and vicious suburban and evangelical parents there's very strong limits on what CPS can actually achieve.
I mean homeschooling is legal, cops in schools sending 12 year olds to prison because they got in a fight is legal, the US prison system routinely uses torture to the point where European countries won't extradite here. The US is the bad place.
Parents have basically unlimited rights to do whatever they want to their child as long as it doesn't leave marks. CPS is supposed to prevent abuse but between institutional racism, limits on their oversight, and vicious suburban and evangelical parents there's very strong limits on what CPS can actually achieve.
I mean homeschooling is legal, cops in schools sending 12 year olds to prison because they got in a fight is legal, the US prison system routinely uses torture to the point where European countries won't extradite here. The US is the bad place.