Child abuse

There are many forms of child abuse:

1) One of them happened a few blocks from my house. What I heard from outside the house was this:” Must I train you like a dog? Even a dog is easier to train than you!” a lady in her 30s was shouting in the house. Her child, probably 3-4 years old was crying badly. I was angry and sad that something like this can still happen in modern Singapore, said to be the world richest city.

2) Another type of abuse is deliberate neglect. The grandma is looking far away, totally indifferent to her grandchild’s needs. She seemed in a world of her own. Her grandchild, 4-5 years old, is playing 5 -6 metres away by himself.

Could this be the right way to bring up a child? I wondered.