By Juan Wu Thursday, April 12, 2012 Girls are raised to be
obedient and the Chinese ideogram for "educate" shows a child
being beaten with a stick. Juan Wu says the traditional
mistreatment of children is where the work against domestic
violence begins. ZHONGSHAN, China (WOMENSENEWS) -- An American
woman named Kim Lee made news in China last year by going public
about the beatings she'd endured from her husband. On her own
Weibo, a Chinese social media site, she posted pictures of her
injuries. The incident caused a media uproar and directed a huge
amount of criticism against her husband Li Yang, founder of
China's Crazy English, a well-known English training institute
located in Guanghzhou. This incident isn't isolated. By daring
to break the taboo of talking about marital strife, Kim Lee gave
Chinese people a chance to consider this one couple's problems
in the terms of all our households. This example gives us a
chance to reflect, in particular, on the way we discipline our
children. We need to also think