Nice picture!

agreed!

True, but that little amount wouldn't do anything at all, I'm glad you agree :)

or maybe he didnt want stupid people to say "its mom, not mum" or stuff like that. u can be from england and try to be understood, you know!

I think the only way an English person would write 'mom' is if they'd been reading too much twilight. Thankfully, even Americans aren't stupid enough to correct 'mum' to 'mom'

Different places in England do use different ways of spelling "Mum". This includes "Mam" and "Mom". So don't think that something like that is a clear indication of where someone is from.

'mam' yes - Wales, the South West, the North, the Borders, Northern Ireland 'mom' really - where? Specific locations please, coz i've never heard anyone say it :)

By your logic, 78, I'm clearly not from the United States because I use Canadian spelling most of the time. People can be influenced by countries that aren't their home country.

I just cant perticularly see that happening... It could occur if someone's mum themselves were American, or if they were American and moved here, or if they watched way too much american TV when they were wee, but for the most part the word 'mom' in any English or Scottish accent grates a little (and it would be awfully long, in say a welsh one) so i cant imagine someone doing it unless it was by deliberate choice, which would in itself be strange... A US/Canada blur isn't exceptionally surprising, but a US/UK one is, because its a pronunciation thing, not just the way you spell it....

Op would have to be a child for that to be child abuse.

She would also actually have to be abusing said child, forcing OP to vomit would not be considered abuse.

It could be, do you know how harmful it is for you body to vomit when it doesn't need to? You're throwing acid from your stomach (which has a PH of 1/2, which is pretty much the strongest acid you can get) up your throat and out your mouth. It's destroying the enamel of your teeth, your teeth, as well as the esophagus. Not to mention all the damage from drinking enough salt water in order to induce it in the first place - all this from a single, small glass of a MIXED drink. Yeah, the damage from the salt water and vomiting is much worse than the single drink. Physically beating a child is not the only way to abuse them.

Age doesn't change the fact she put her kid at risk having him or her drink unsafe amounts of salt to induce vomiting from a amount of alcohol that posed no threat. Still can be seen as abuse.

You're right. The act is still just as cruel regardless of age. The mom could be in heaps more trouble if OP was a child, though.