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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 01:56 PM Feb 2018

Relatives to Duggar family suggest beating up 6-month-old babies to discipline them.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/duggar-daughters-laws-promote-christian-discipline-methods-linked-beating-deaths-3-children/

The Pearls have self-published several books, including Created to Be His Help-Meet, that promote a patriarchal, conservative brand of evangelical Christianity that encourages parents to beat children as young as six months old with plastic tubes to ensure obedience.

“It’s a good spanking instrument,” Michael Pearl said. “It’s too light to cause damage to the muscle or the bone.”

Their teachings have been linked to the abuse deaths of at least three children whose adoptive parents were convicted of murder.

The children suffered beatings, malnutrition and other abuse, and prosecutors say their adoptive parents practiced extreme variations on the Pearls’ teachings.
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Relatives to Duggar family suggest beating up 6-month-old babies to discipline them. (Original Post) DetlefK Feb 2018 OP
Shaking my head Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #1
Good Christians Im sure... dhill926 Feb 2018 #2
WTF?!???????????????? Upthevibe Feb 2018 #3
I am sick of them get the red out Feb 2018 #4
When we had our first living child Bettie Feb 2018 #5
grooming them from the get-go. mopinko Feb 2018 #8
calling Child Protective services--get over to their house NOW! niyad Feb 2018 #6
generally not in favour pf physical violence, but. . . I think they should receive the same niyad Feb 2018 #7

Bettie

(16,157 posts)
5. When we had our first living child
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:32 PM
Feb 2018

someone gave us a copy of that book.

We read some of it, were horrified that anyone would do any of that and threw it out.

It is awful and trains children for immediate unquestioning compliance rather than an understanding of what is right and wrong.

niyad

(114,151 posts)
7. generally not in favour pf physical violence, but. . . I think they should receive the same
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:41 PM
Feb 2018

treatment they recommend for children.

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