QuoteReplyTopic: Hair Cut Abuse Posted: April 29 2009 at 8:42pm
Hi, I am new to this forum only because I have a question about hair being cut as a form of abuse. I am the mother of four children, the youngest of which is a boy of 9 years old. I am divorced and his paternal grandmother is a former hairdresser. She is 70 years old and still cuts and styles hair, despite the fact that her skills are diminishing and the fact that she wears a brace on her right hand from a car accident. My son visits her every other weekend with his sisters while his father is working. While there, the grandmother insists on cutting his hair because it is touching his ears and or his eyebrows which she thinks is too long. She cuts it against his will, does a terrible job, has already cut him with the scissors and insists that he should be subjected to this because she is his grandmother. My son comes home with a "mullet" and crooked bangs that I often have to have corrected by a real stylist. I was wondering if anyone could advise me as to whether this is considered a form of CHILD ABUSE. Not to minimize the real serious forms of child abuse but this is an adult woman who is doing something to a child's body against his will that has left him physically embarassed and mentally traumatized. He comes home from there crying, refusing to go to school with a horrible hair cut. His father allows this to happen saying that his mother is a professional. I have asked them nicely to not do this and that I will take him to a regular stylist. When I have taken him to a regular stylist, the grandmother finds something wrong with the cut and insists on "fixing" it which makes it worse. At what age is my son able to make this decision for himself? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill by getting a Court order to enforce this but my son is now refusing to go to his father's and/or his grandmother's home. Please help.
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