Where do you draw the line between honor your father and mother, and protect yourself from your father or mother?? This is one that has plagued me since I got here. In the states I thought the answer was easy- you abuse your kid we do everything we can to get the kid out and you go to jail. But here? Where would I put all the children from my school alone whose parents mistreat them? I work with the parents, I try to show them another way, but what do you tell a child? What to I say to a young man I find sleeping on my porch because his mama came at him with a knife? Lord please give me wisdom.