Abby Connolly
It’s always a shame when family members get into arguments so bad that it splits the family. Some fights are too intense to forgive and forget right away.
Have you ever witnessed a family incident so bad that the cops had to show up?
One woman and her husband called the cops on her in-laws after her brother-in-law smacked her autistic son to discipline him. Since then, the family has been at odds.
She and her husband have a seven-year-old who is on the autism spectrum. He is usually a well-behaved child but needs reminders on certain rules.
Last year, her sister-in-law and her husband held one of their frequent family gatherings at their house, which she attended with her son. Her husband was at work.
One of her sister-in-law’s house rules is that no children are allowed to run in the house.
“My sister-in-law’s husband slapped my child across the face for running in the house,” she explained.
“It wasn’t overly hard, but I don’t think that matters. No running in the house is a set rule, but [since] my child is on the spectrum, he needs frequent reminders.”
“He skip-runs when stimming. We hadn’t even been at the house for 15 minutes when this happened, and my sister-in-law’s husband gave no warning or reminder. It happened so [quickly] that I didn’t even have the chance to speak to my kid myself.”
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