Sunday, April 20, 2008

"In the future, everything will be child abuse for 15 minutes" - UPDATED 


[With a respectful nod to the wonderful Beautiful Atrocities: "In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes", which is alas now defunct]

Cross country running "Cross-country running at school could be a form of physical abuse" - [source] 

Cycling
"Is cycling with children a form of child abuse?" - [source]

Education (Religious)
"Inculcating...falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse" - [source]

Education (Secular)
"This deprivation of the spiritual is a form of child abuse." - [source]

Education (Home schooling)
Home schooling parents, he said, “participate in what can be perceived as a form of child abuse.” - [source]

Education (American Public Schools)
"Is American public education a form of child abuse?" - [source]

Education (British Boarding Schools)
"Sending young children to boarding school may be considered a particularly British form of child abuse" - [source]

Education (Pretty much all of it, really)
"Education today is a form of child abuse " - [source]

Exams
"A Halifax teacher, Rosemary Wright, proposed that the conference view exams as 'another form of child abuse'." - [source]

Feeding children (too much)
"OVERFEEDING youngsters should be seen as a form of child abuse" - [source]

Feeding children (not enough)
"Should the involvement of children in a hunger strike be regarded as a legitimate form of political protest or does it constitute a form of child abuse?...Definitely not legitimate protest, but probably not child abuse either" - [source]

Feeding children (Fish)
"Feeding fish, whale and seal to children is a form of child abuse" - [source]

Feeding children (vegetables)
"Vegetarianism – a form of child abuse" - [source]

Feeding children (junk food)
"I believe that it is a form of child abuse to feed children junk food, where the adult offering it knows it to be so." - [source]

Feeding children (the Tam Fry edition) "Tam Fry, a member of the National Obesity Forum's board, will tell a conference that youngsters who are over-fed by their parents should be treated as victims of abuse, as happens with malnourished children." - [source]

Ignoring the Bishop of Stafford "People who fail to tackle climate change are acting like an Austrian man who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, an Anglican bishop has said." - [source] [via Oliver Kamm]

Immigration Law
"deportations are a form of child abuse" - [source]

Raising children in suburbia
"Is raising children in suburbia a form of child abuse?" - [source]

Reality TV
"constitutes nothing less than child abuse" - [source]

SATs (UK) - The union's outgoing president, Bill Greenshields, said he was confident a boycott would be successful."We will end this child abuse," he said. [source]

Smoking
"Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse" - [source]

The policies of John McCain
"a colossal from [sic] of child abuse." - [source]

Vaccination (Not using) - People who do not have their children vaccinated should be prosecuted for domestic terrorism and child abuse. - [source]

Yelling
"Oh, yes, I think that yelling is a form of child abuse." - [source]

Zoos (taking children to Chinese zoos)
"It's almost a form of child abuse" - [source]


It's a substantial list, for which additional contributions are solicited, either by the comments section or by email to a.political.scientist - at - gmail dot com.

However, it seems that child abuse will NOT be a "form of child abuse": it appears that watching children being abused on the internet will be "nothing to be ashamed of" and "courageous".

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