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Siblings are so much fun—especially when they get along. But even if they do "play nice," there's bound to be the occasional spat here and there. Sometimes those fights can get physical with a slap, a pinch ... some wrestling around on the ground. How do you discipline your children when they fight?
Would you call the police?
According to ParentDish, that's what happened to Reagan Greene. The 10-year-old Texan was arrested and charged with assault after she and her 13-year-old sister Desiree got into an altercation on the playground.
A witness to the fight called police, who later showed up at the Greene's home after the girls had already made up. The police determined it was a case of family violence and that Desiree had gotten the worst of it so Reagan was taken into custody.
The girls' mom, Rhonda Greene, says she's concerned that the arrest may have scarred her 10-year-old.
What do you think? Is arrest and a criminal charge the appropriate response to a physical spat between siblings? Is there an age at which such a response might be appropriate?
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Comments (25)
That's the most freaking ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I know siblings can get physically violent with each other (my brother and I certainly did at times), but arresting a 10 year old?!? It should be the parent's job to sort that out and should not be the concern of law enforcement! Maybe if they were older teens or something, but these kids are both minors.
It just all depends.
Times have changed. When I was growing up siblings fought all the time. Most parents just said to let them get it out of their system & were close enough to stop the situation if it really started getting out of hand. Now if you do not stop your children from physically fighting and allow it to continue (even if there is no real harm being done) you can be arrested for accessory to assault & child abuse.
Considering I had too many physical altercations with my older brother I would say It depends on how bad it got. My brother used to strangle me and cut me and everything in between....I think him getting arrested would have maybe scared him and maybe I would not have been so badly abused my whole child life. But if it is typical sibling fighting then I say no....
People need to mind there own business.I don't think that there is a single person out there who hasn't hit there brother or sister.
It depends. Go watch Cops. I've seen some younger kids/preteens fighting in ways that definitely were not even in the heads of my peers at that age.
my sister and I used to kick each others ass when we were young, my dad got so tired of breaking us up, one day he let us duke it out till one of us won...
I think in this case the cops were so wrong, after all the sisters had gotten past it and made up, not like they were having a knife fight or something.... you have to draw the line, problem is most people do not know where that line is.
My sister and I are about that close in age, 2 years instead of three, and we used to fight all the time.....until she got big enough to kick my ass, and then we quit fighting physically, and just yelled all the time.
I think that law enforcement, the government are all wasting our time. I had four older brothers and we fought until one of us decided that we had enough. Then my mother would take charge. I really miss those days compared to what it is like now for ours kids.
It just all depends--if one child is always beating the other one--then yes something should be done, but if its just a typical fight then this is a little much.-- But we dont' know the whole story, maybe after talking to the 13yr old, the cops determined that this is a pattern, the 10yr old hits her, and then is sorry--kinda like an abusive husband? --Their always sorry afterwards--and if this is a pattern, it needs to be stopped early.