"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".
