I was disciplined with a belt as well, but when you whip a child to the point that it leaves welps and bruises then you are into the abuse side of things,

Who said the belt is leaving welps and bruises? You seem to be making an assumption based on a previous incident with a completely different object.

Don't get sucked into this crap that the media is trying to pull. They are taking advantage of a situation where they have a public figure who made negative headlines, and they are attempting to equate anything he does from here on out as abuse, so that, by extension, anyone else who uses a belt is also abusive.

Regardless of whatever you think of Adrian Peterson, in particular, this is just the continued attempt of the left wing media to drive home the idea that discipline is abuse.

The reason AP got suspended virtually the entire season was because he whipped his son hard enough to leave easily visible marks on him; there were pics posted on this site of it.

Yes, and that was with a "switch". This article says he is using a belt. And we have no proof that he is causing any injuries with his belt. My question to you was very specific to the difference in objects, never mind that it was years ago, and none of us knows how hard he hits these days. You're just calling him an idiot because you assume he's doing the same things.

Maybe he is. But you don't know that any more than I do.

I am calling him an idiot because he is jeopardizing his NFL career and/or Child Services could take his kids from him or make his life a living hell.

Because he uses a belt? Where is your evidence that he is causing harm now? You're still going on what happened years ago. My parents would have been taken from me if your reasoning were enough to indict anyone. And that would have made people like yourself responsible for a great deal of anger on my part.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you!