Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment

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High-profile cases such as child sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church and faith healing deaths in certain fundamentalist Christian congregations have raised public awareness that religion can sometimes mask deviant and harmful behaviour.

By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. Even God the Father's sacrifice of his Son leads to a familiar quote used by abusers, "God sacrificed his son for us, who are we to balk if he asks to sacrifice ours? leads to a resentful and angry child, and damages family relationships if it continues for a long time.

This follows a sustained lobbying campaign from religious groups who fear that the treaty's requirement that states intervene to promote young people's “best interests” would limit the freedom of parents to beat and home-school their children. Other potential negative effects, note the authors, include the promotion of religiously sanctioned prejudice, hatred, and violence, including homophobia. To escape the boredom and loneliness, she turned to the Bible and read its "uplifting and promising" passages. If our view of Jesus is as the son of an angry God who becomes a sacrificial lamb to save us from his father's wrath, there will always be valid arguments for abusive ministers to keep their flock fearful, silent and enslaved. It incorporates the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (PDF) into domestic British law.

It seems the Pearls believe that a wife should submit to her husband, even if it means her death…and presumably, the death of her children. I thought of that while reading Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment by Janet Heimlick (yes, daughter of the inventor of the famous maneuver), published by Prometheus Press in 2011. I felt as though I could've been reading my own story in so many of the stories in the physical and emotional abuse chapters. So if your church is considering doing a study around Debi Pearl's Created to Be His Helpmeet or any of the Pearls' "No Greater Joy" material, please consider passing this post along to the leadership. Statutory guidance for supporting homeless 16- and 17-year-olds is set out in Prevention of homelessness and provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year old young people who may be homeless and/or require accommodation (PDF) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2018).The NSPCC's response has been its current campaign on "the underwear rule", which gives parents simple guidelines to explain to children that the parts of their body covered by their underwear are private, and no one should be asking to touch or look at those places. What the Savile inquiry has shown is that "stranger danger", on which past campaigns had concentrated, doesn't target the biggest problem, which is people who are trusted and known to children, and who find ways and opportunities to access them (in more than 90% of cases, children are sexually abused by someone known to them).