Would you call the cops on your own child?

I think its your nephew’s parents who should be taught a lesson in child-rearing. I don’t know how they brought up the older kid, he comes across as extremely wronged and neglected. Either he was too pampered for his own good before the kid brother came in and henceforth neglected, or he was neglected from the beginning itself coz he turned out to be ‘no good’. Another thing is that the ‘good’ is always good, it always gets the best, the ‘pat-on-the-back’, the extra encouragement, the pride of the family. It’s the ‘not-good’ that becomes the black sheep due to mishandling. I am sure the elder kid has something in him which can make the family proud of him too. Not all talents are bursting forth, some are latent and needs a really discerning eye of the parent to nurture. Teaching him a lesson may not be a good idea after all. Once he is gone to the cops, you can mark him as gone forever from the family. There is still hope, I think the parents should sit with him, shower his with unconditional love and try to probe what’s inside him, what’s bothering him…and don’t bring the kid brother into this pls, he is already getting too much attention from everyone. One more thing is that even the good kid should be taught to be bad once in a while…you know ‘good kids’ have a habit of growing up ‘good’ and then they hardly respect others around them who they think of as ‘bad’.

I think that this is absolutely caused by being jealousy. It is better for the parents to teach him how to behave instead of being jealousy at others. That is not the attitude we expect from kids and anybody. There is no need to ask the cops to fix it. The best way is for the kid himself to realize that it is wrong to be jealousy at others. Let him work hard to reach his goal to have something that he can be proud of himself...

I wouldn't call the police but I would get help for that child. If he can hit his brother that fast I'm sure there have been other instances of abuse by him at other times. Those parents need to take a good look at their child rearing ways.

You did not mention the ages of these children but the older one needs serious help now! This violence could one day escalate into something his parents may not have ever imagined. This needs to end NOW. Calling the cops won't help unless he is closer to an adult age. If he is a child, he needs therapy.