The son of Robert F. Kennedy, Douglas Kennedy, is on trial for assaulting two nurses. According to the nurses, he was in the act of taking his newborn son out of the maternity ward when they noticed his action and tried to stop him. When they confronted him, he got physically violent with them. He twisted one of their arms and kicked the other. He is charged with harassment and child endangerment. The nurses maintain that the infant had not been discharged and that it would have been dangerous to its well-being if he had removed it from the hospital. They also said that they did not recognize Mr. Kennedy as the father. Mr. Kennedy says that the nurses had initially agreed to let him take the baby out for air and then decided to stop him. He says that they tried to take the baby out of his arms and that no one has the right to do that to a parent. Because the nurses tried to take the baby, he got physical with them.
This whole situation could have been if Mr. Kennedy had more effectively communicated his intentions and had respected the nurses when they told him not to remove the child. If he had used the assertive message format (state behavior, give interpretation, share feeling, let them know the consequence of their actions, and giving his intentions) the situation could have been handled verbally, without having to resort to violence.
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