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Jim Benton on Christian Child Abuse Manuals Here's a chilling piece by Jim Benton on Christian fundamentalist child-abuse manuals. Sweden outlawed all forms of physical discipline in child rearing in 1979. Bible Based Baby Beating By Jim Benton Warning: the following will be and should be disturbing to many of you, particularly parents. If you are squeamish, or think that children are individuals to be loved rather than creatures whose main job is to obey mindlessly, you might want to a

A resource for agnostic parents that are raising their children without religion. More power to them!

CHILD ABUSE BY RELIGIONS Innaiah Narisetti Ph.D. Children too are human beings “The children are ours; we thrash them or kill them; who are you to poke your nose?”, flare up some parents in righteous indignation. some assert that they have to catch them (children) young and fashion them the way they want. “After all, you can train a plant but not a tree”. some others swear by the dictum, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. Most parents regard their children as their property.