The 7 year old Japanese boy was found a few hours ago

This is a horrible, horrible thing the parents did. It is much more than "just a mistake". One should NEVER threaten to abandon or actually abandon their child as punishment. This child will have abandonment issues his whole life, I guarantee it.

I don't know if it's the right thing to take the child away, as this might compound the abandonment issue even more - BUT, those parents should be heavily monitored until the kid turns 18, to make sure they don't do anything else this horrible.

The parents need counseling/training and the kid for sure needs counseling.

a reply to: kaylaluv
Absolutely horrible.
Evil, imo.
Parents are the one thing that a child should be able to look for for support and LOVE. A child should be able to rely on that as a given.
This child does not deserve those evil people as parents.
It reminds me of the parents in Hansel and Gretel.
The evil stepmother even mentions in the story that the children would be eaten by the wild animals in the forest.

Yeah to all those that advocate 'hanging' the parents you should consider a couple things first:
they are in JAPAN, and it's a different country with different laws and hell, everything is different over there, family values are much more deep over there than here in the US, I believe the boy is a real brat and when the parents tried to teach him a lesson he got the upper hand.

a reply to: manuelram16

I remember reading a story about parents (this wasn't in Japan) who wanted to teach their 4-year-old daughter a lesson when she kept wanting to get up and get a drink of water instead of going to bed. They forced a gallon of water down her throat - her brain swelled up and she died. Well, she sure won't be asking for water anymore.

As a parent, you should be veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy careful about how you teach a lesson.

Personally, I think the shame of being responsible for your child going missing would be much, much less than the shame of having a delinquent child who eventually went to jail, or made nothing of his life. Japan is a very, very different place.

Did the parents mess up? Yes. Totally. They went oooold school and it failed. I can almost guarantee that the older generations in Japan will be less offended by this type of punishment, though.

originally posted by: roadgravel
Shamed in Japan society, contrasted to America.

In the US the shamed sues for money or gets paid for book, movie, TV rights, then gets a cult following. The bottom line being 'it wasn't my fault'.

Not only do I not think that is common to shameful situations in the US, I'm not even sure it's happened. I could be wrong - I don't pay any attention to pop culture, tv news, etc. Do you have an example, or is this just a baseless dig at US society?

originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: kaylaluv
Absolutely horrible.
Evil, imo.
Parents are the one thing that a child should be able to look for for support and LOVE. A child should be able to rely on that as a given.
This child does not deserve those evil people as parents.
It reminds me of the parents in Hansel and Gretel.
The evil stepmother even mentions in the story that the children would be eaten by the wild animals in the forest.

It's a shame most parents don't understand that showing a child love is much more effective than showing them abandonment, fear, and aggression. "Love" doesn't mean overly-coddling, or letting them get out of control, but disconnecting your child from what is supposed to be their primary source of security and protection (his/her parents), is a sure-fire way to mess your kid up good.

Glad he's alive, hopefully they can all move on, with the parents having learned a lesson. And I hope THEY learn a lesson from this and not him. The only good the little boy might learn from this is what not to do as a parent, and why it was wrong.

a reply to: dogstar23

here is a link www.dailymail.co.uk...

thanks goodness he was okay, at least physically...who knows what mental problems will crop up from this experience..

he was dehydrated and suffered exhaustion but was drinking water from a tap outside....did not shed a tear when rescuers found him...just was very hungry

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a reply to: georgeflorida

you didn't read my post just above yours? he drank water from the tap that was outside.....without that he would have been dead.