DH had a very different upbringing to me - polar opposite to my sheltered middle-class childhood. Not a problem and, although we're very different, I try my best to get on well with the in-laws. However...the other night DH dropped the bombshell that his dad used to beat him with a belt as punishment when he and his brothers were 'naughty'. While DH claims this is a 'working-class thing' and hasn't left any emotional scars, but I'm absolutely disgusted.
DH and I have an arrangement in theory with the in-laws for them to look after DD one day a week when I'm back at work (cost-saving measure). However, now I know what I know I'm really unhappy about the idea. It's not that I think for one minute they'll use any violence on our DD - it's just I don't want the kind of people that could even contemplate doing that to their own children to look after our child.
I know it was a long time ago (the use of the cane was legal then). But AIBU feeling this way now?????