Breaking children’s spirits in God’s name
“To
Train Up a Child” is the revealing title of an authoritarian child-rearing
manual, written by a right-wing evangelical pastor and his
wife, that has been found in the homes of at least three families implicated in
horrific cases of homicide by child abuse. The book, by Michael Pearl, pastor of
the Church at Cane Creek in Pleasantville, Tenn., and his wife Debi, is
particularly popular among Christian home-schoolers. Just think of this as the
anti-Dr. Spock manual. It begins by advocating taps with switches to teach
six-month-old babies not to roll off their blankets and progresses to
recommendations for the use of a quarter-inch thick flexible plumbing line to
strike older children on the arms, legs or back.
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