Excuse me, how is injuring your child by repeatedly hitting him with some instrument and leaving bloody prints, while perfectly sober and in your "right" mind any less severe than hitting your fiance once when hammered? If anything, a woman can choose to leave of her own free mind, the child has no escape. Double standards. Not happy.
Its only what the media wants to glorify and "shock" you with at the time.
Consider me shocked then http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/09/12/adrian-peterson-indicted-for-child-abuse/
Smack with an open palm on a kids fingers or the butt fully clothed (with adequate strength) is discipline. Using an instrument and leaving bloody marks is not discipline but violence. The boy is 4-years old! Nothing that a kid that age does deserves such punishment.
I am disgusted by the response around the league and the public to the AP situation. Those same people who condemned Rice, denounced him, etc are defending AP. A spanking is a spanking. A beating is a beating. The pics tell you the difference. Disgusting.