Is there a difference between bad parenting and abuse?

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I saw a thing that was talking about various traits in kids and arguing that they were the product of abuse. E.g. a kid who lies is one who is afraid because you're verbally abusive. 
Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me - kids lie about a lot of stuff without being afraid - but it got me thinking. Because some of the stuff that was listed as abusive (e.g. yelling) might be abusive, but doesn't seem like it's always abusive.
On top of that,  while everyone has bad parenting moments, it seems....wrong to say they are the same thing as abuse. Like.... I can remember times when I was a kid and my mom lost her temper and yelled and shouted when my sister and I were misbehaving. By the book, it wasn't the best way to handle the situation, and even she knew that, but being a mom does not actually make you a super human devoid  of all human failings.  It wasn't traumatic, and I never doubted she loved us or felt in danger. It would feel absurd to call that abuse, but I saw a lot of people doing just that. 
I guess I just don't think it's realistic that anyone will be able to 100% follow best parenting practices at all times, but I don't think that things short of perfection are the same as abuse. That seems to belittle what abuse survivors actually went through. But then again, I don't want to excuse away abuse as bad parenting. 
So if there is a difference, how do we define it?

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Bad parenting=a handful of incidents, here or there, where the parent might have made a poor choice. They learn from their mistake and try to do better. Usually it's not a deliberate attempt to hurt the child.
Abuse=a repeated pattern where the parent has a blatant disregard for the child's physical or emotional wellbeing. Refuses to change their behavior, even when they are made aware that they are hurting their child.

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No parent is perfect just as the same parenting style will not work for every child. I feel like it could only be considered abusive parenting if the parents know about the child’s behavior and don’t take steps to correct the bad behavior for the child’s benefit.

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Not all bad parents are abusive parents, but all abusive parents are bad parents. 
For example, if a father was completely absent from a child's life, he would be a bad parent but I don't think I would consider it abuse.

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both can be and are usally forms of abuse so yes

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The issue is that people have a wide variety of opinions. You may think it is abuse to only feed a child fast food while that child's patents think it abuse to not feed the child at all. You may feed your child vegan and someone thinks that is bad parenting or abuse. You may let your child walk to the park alone and someone thinks that is abuse because they personally wouldn't do it. You think spanking is abuse while another parent thinks your child are spoiled for not getting consequences for actions. We will never agree as a society as to what is in that gray area you are talking about. Good parents feed their children. They educate them. They provide shelter and clothes. They love them. How they go about it should be up to them.

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Letting your child drink 32 oz mountain dew or dr pepper and play grand theft auto is bad parenting.  Beating your kid with a light cord, broom handle or hanger is abuse.

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Bad parenting would be not taking opportunities to teach your child about things like empathy, or not helping them succeed. 
   
Abuse would be actively harming your child's mind and/or body even if there isn't an intent to.

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I see bad parenting, like letting your child become obese and develop health problems, or letting them throw temper tantrums whenever and wherever they want without any sort of punishment, more as neglect than abuse. No parent is perfect. There will be times parents decide to just give in and let their child do what they want instead of having to argue and hear them cry. Or there’s parents that yell 24/7 (my mother) instead of just communicating with their children. I personally don’t see it as abuse unless the parents are belittling them, or intentionally (mentally or physically) trying to cause them pain.

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Abuse isn’t something that happens as a once off situation, that’s the difference. But in saying that, abuse isn’t always active, I don’t quite have the right words for this but for example, if you face physical abuse for certain behaviours (that may not necessarily even be bad behaviours) and you stop behaving that way to avoid the physical abuse, that doesn’t mean the abuse has stopped. Scaring someone into behaving a certain way using abuse is still abuse once they behave and you stop hitting them. So there’s a lot of not so very clear lines, and a lot of abuse is difficult to determine the nature of by an outsider because abuse like the example I just mentioned, to an outsider may simply appear as bad parenting as it only happens on occasion or doesn’t occur anymore when that’s not the case.
It’s not very black and white 🤷‍♂️

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Bad parenting is when you don’t make good choices, maybe if you children are not getting enough sleep because of your poor choices or laziness. Abuse is when the children are physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially are hurting.

Is there a difference between bad parenting and abuse?

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