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A man and woman make the decision to cohabitate. One person has a child already then together they have another. They are living like one big happy family, but the person that isn’t the child’s biological parent wants to play a bigger part in the child’s rearing which includes decision making and spankings. Is cohabitation enough for them to spank a child? Would it make a difference if they were married? Or is spanking of a child by a non blood relative a no fly zone?

That’s exactly what happened to a woman who wrote in to am Sylk, radio host of The Sam Sylk Show on 93.1 WZAK during his daily 1 pm Reality Hour segment. She is all confused and in need of some guidance. So Sam Sylk put his mic real close to his mouth and made the answer real plain. But is he right?

Check out what happened and tells us your option in the comments below.

Dear Sam

I’ve been with my boyfriend for 3 years now and we live together with my 10 year old daughter and our 1 year old son. Most of our arguments involves my daughter. It seems to me that he picks on her about EVERYTHING! One day I left him alone with her while I went to the nail salon and he called me with her crying in the background telling me he spanked her because she wouldn’t listen to him even though I’ve asked him to never put his hands on her. He’s always yelling at her telling her to clean up her mess or do this and do that. He tells me if he doesn’t have any say so in her life then he’s done. He said I don’t get the final say so over what happens to her because he pays the rent and if he feels that he should be allowed to punish her accordingly. He also feels that I need to discuss everything that goes on in her life with him. Although her father is not absent he is not 100 % present, therefore he is her acting father. I am so stressed out, what should I do?