child-abuse parental-rights punishment language abuse
Are Parent-to-Child death threats legal exceptions?
<p>Is it legal for a parent to make a death threat to their child verbally, to &quot;keep them in line&quot;? Is a parent threatening a child with death an exception, if they said it was &quot;from love and my instincts I know them -- I needed to help them think&quot;?</p>
<p>Is that just a verbal abuse problem for a psychologist to deal with, or does the law cope with the parent-child verbal abuse/death threat issue specifically? From reading about the law, it seems parents get exceptions to be using/abusing that language.</p>
<p>I'm asking about a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_threat" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Death threat</a> as defined officially by US law, but global examples are welcome too.</p>

<h2>“I’m going to kill you” is not a threat</h2>
<p>Or at least, not necessarily.</p>
<p>A criminal threat is more than words - it must encompass the intent to carry out the threat. Except in wholly exceptional circumstances, this type of language between parent and child is not a threat.</p>
