Explain why the media is using the term "domestic violence" in relation to the issue of corporal punishment of children.
At first I thought it was odd that the media would choose to address this barbarous legislation about corporal punishment of children as an issue of 'domestic violence'.
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But then I realized that the media don't give a toss about children; they decided that 'domestic violence' plays better against the backdrop of Putin's upcoming conversation with "misogynist" Trump.