I love how the tough guy cries like a pissy little victim as the cops try to load him into the car.

I hate cops with a burning passion, but come on - have some dignity. Once the cuffs are on, be quiet.

I can understand not shutting up when the cuffs go on - perhaps cursing, raging, or threatening legal action (though I would not recommend such behavior). But shrieking like a little girl? Seriously? Yeah, no dignity left after that one.

This is the saddest thing I have seen in a long time. I think was disturbs me the most is the fact that the kids are so matter of fact about it. This tells you how routine this has become for them. It makes me think of the "nudist" from Amy's column this week. If the letter writer marries that pervert, this is the type of life her kids can expect to live. This is why women have to be so careful with the choices that they make. The long term implications aren't limited to just themselves, but also to their children as well.

How awful for those kids.
As for his pathetic crying and screaming while he's being arrested... Doesn't it seem like, in general, wife-beaters are massive pussies? Like they're such unimportant losers in life that they "compensate" by dominating their wife or girlfriend?

Awful for those kids. I truly hope that they turn out to be decent people, and from the way they speak about it, it seems they will. I just hope that the mother is smart enough to put an end to that "relationship" or whatever it is, and the kids don't have to deal with it any longer.

"I hate cops with a burning passion,"-TJIC

Really? ALL cops, because a few are bad? I hate when people make stupid generalizations.

What a sad thing to watch and even sadder to know how often stuff like this goes on. I left an abusive marriage and dealt with my issues that led me to make such poor relationship choices but it still confuses me that any mother would put her child in harm's way in the name of love. One line I never crossed thankfully was letting anyone hurt my kids. I left because I wanted them to have healthy relationships and a good life. I don't say that to seem superior but because I genuinely don't understand the moms that bring convicts, and sex-offenders into their homes with their kids. My kids have never been subjected to a revolving door of dating or men living with us but I hate to say I see it a lot.

Some people just need to be taken out and shot

WEll, Kristen, some guys with severe Borderline Personality Disorder can be so damn charming at first. Once you get sucked in, then their true colors start showing. And once that happens, it's all over but the crying, at least until you're able to either leave or get him to leave. Easier said than done. But, too, when the woman's self-esteem is in the toilet, she tends to be more susceptible to being mistreated. So both parties tend to feed off each other, it seems. But yeah, no WAY should ANY children be subjected to such madness. But it happens.

No dress rehearsal for Burning Bed II? I'm disappointed.

I'm against cruelty, but I lean toward the Old Testament style of justice.

Flynne, I agree with you as far as a woman's self-esteem being low goes and what she's susceptible to but I know quite a few women, too many actually, who have date known criminals and bring them around their kids. One woman I know is a single mom and decides on a weekly basis that her family should not be allowed around her kid because she deems them unhealthy and then picks up men in bars and introduces them to her daughter at breakfast. The argument could be made that she has a low self-esteem but I don't give a crap. She has an 8 year old daughter now susceptible to the whims of the trash she's bringing home. They all have records but, you know, they're all victims of the corrupt po po. I wish I could say she's the only one like that I know.

When it comes to the kids something's gotta give. Unfortunately my kids are paying for my low self-esteem and poor marriage choice in the form of a father who is pretty lousy and abusive. I certainly was not going to expose them to anything similar. I made a point of getting my shit together for them and I have little tolerance for other women who go from one bad relationship to the next while involving their kids. And if anyone ever touched my kids, I'd kill them.

Is anyone saying some special allowance needs to be made for feminine nature in these matters?