What Happens When a Parent Calls the Police to Discipline a Child?
Police officers dread “domestic” calls involving dysfunctional personal relationships because their legal options in dealing with the participants are limited. Calling the police to discipline a child is not only a call for help by a parent, it is an admission that a situation has gone beyond the point where the adult is able to manage the behavior of a child. Forcing the police to step in the middle seldom changes that dynamic.
