Public Opinion Says Punishing Kids With Hot Sauce Is Child Abuse [INFOGRAPHIC]

It really depends on how the poll is handled and the reality of the circumstances.

Take the issue of child sexual abuse. Even today, many if nor most adults would say that a woman molesting a child is not as bad as a man molesting a child because they always assume that a man would molest a girl with sexual intercourse. However, if you remove sexual intercourse, we still view a man molesting a child as worse than when a woman does it because we have always viewed it as a growing experience for boys and tragedy when it's girls. However, factor in sexually transmitted diseases and we really must set gender aside because AIDS and other diseases passed on through sex can kill our children so that pregnancy is sometimes the least of worries where our children are involved. As I have also addressed to others, we send a message to boys that it's ok to have sex with an older girl or woman but not ok to have a relationship... and we wonder why so many men have problems with commitment.

That's not to say that boys are more important or anything as all children suffer where child molestation is concerned, but until the mid to late 1980's in this country, most would laugh if you said a boy was a victim of child molestation if he had sex with an older girl or woman... then today, you have celebrities like Justin Bieber involved with adult women and people think it's normal when he wasn't even 16 at the time. It's very clear the old bias's still exist as many Bieber fans said there was nothing wrong with this and he wasn't being harmed.

Men may view a hot sauce punishment as better than pulling off a belt and in the end, the child isn't harmed because they could have the same thing happen at suppertime by grabbing the bottle of hot sauce and doing it to themselves. Frankly, that's the view I have as the only real difference is that a child is given hot sauce as a joke or they use it themselves... result is just the same. Women may look at it as abuse because it's done as a punishment that hurts the child and that it's an unusual thing to do rather than a normal form of punishment.

My mother made me smoke a carton of cigarettes when she caught me smoking with a couple of friends as she was addicted to the things, my father died from lung cancer because of it and she herself eventually died undergoing treatment for lung cancer... you would think this a cruel thing to do and yet, I haven't smoked since because i almost turned green from smoking that carton of cigarettes and to date, I have been cancer free where both of may parents had more than once battle with cancer. If one day I should marry and have a child who I catch smoking... I will do this to them and hope the same thing happens.

Be honest, you would likely condemn my mother for child abuse for what she did making me smoke a carton of cigarettes and yet, it broke me of smoking because if you think one ciggie tastes nasty... smoke a carton of them back to back as it leaves this god awful nasty taste in your mouth that never seems to go away and you will get sick as a dog.

So who is to say this is wrong... unusual maybe but the worst that may ultimately happen is the kid will grow to hate hot sauce or develop a taste for it over time. It's simply an unusual form of punishment which we should ask ourselves how effective it is and how harmful it is. Frankly, this to me does not look harmful since if you have hot sauce in the house, there's always a chance the child will try it out and if you use it in your food... they're going to get a mouthful anyway and we wouldn't call that abuse would we.