child abuse

Some quarter of a million people in New Zealand - many of them of Maori ethnicity - claim to have suffered traumatic abuse whilst children in care homes. GUARDIAN Question: How is this possible in an advanced civilised society, such as New Zealand, often held up to be a model of dream...

The report into the decades of abuse in a school has been released https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/independent-inquiry-publishes-rochdale-report Makes it clear the various reports were absolutely correct, confirming decades long rumours. Many people knew of this abuse, I heard rumours of Smith’s...

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/controversial-free-range-parenting-now-legal-utah-heres-means-203114763.html There have been stories in the media about parents charged with child abuse or losing custody of their kids for allowing them to be alone at home or walking alone to/from school or a...

A bit of a "well duh" but here's more research that shows that corporal punishment of children is a bad idea. The study reviews more than fifty years of research, covering more than 160,000 children and demonstrates conclusively that physical punishment of children is ineffective but can lead to...

BBC News - Switzerland's shame: The children used as cheap farm labour "Thousands of people in Switzerland who were forced into child labour are demanding compensation for their stolen childhoods. Since the 1850s hundreds of thousands of Swiss children were taken from their parents and sent to...

A Recent book published called The Witch hunt Narrative by a Prof. Cheit contends that most of cases in the 1980's involving ritual sexual abuse were not really witch hunts but dealt with real abuse. The author contends that the "narrative" of a witch hunt is at least partly wrong and that there...

Here are a couple of questions I've been struggling with for a while now. As a person with a left-leaning mindset, I believe there is space for government to step in when people's lives are endangered or threatened. This includes safety regulations, food and consumer goods inspections, and...

Pope Francis has been quoted (in La Repubblica) as saying that reliable data indicates that "about 2%" of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles. However the backpeddling has begun, with Papal spokesman Federico Lombardi saying in what's described as "a sharp note" that the conversation...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-12/gillard-launches-royal-commission-into-child-abuse/4367364 Yay for our PM! Im sure it will take a while, but hopefully some insidious little creeps in robes can see some jail time.

An investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and published this weekend claims that up to eleven boys were castrated while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic church in the 1950s, supposedly to rid them of homosexuality Also reported is that one young man was castrated in 1956 after...

This has come to my attention just today, and I didn't see a thread about it, so I started one around this pretty disturbing youtube video of a judge beating his daughter for downloading illegal software/music to the home computer after being told not to. Apparently the video was uploaded...

What future will we have....watch this and see if you can guess... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NKgAaMthA&feature=player_embedded :yikes: :hb: :scarper:

Irish government going to do something about it now, as some sort of threshold has been reached http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14136923

I'm trying to critically evaluate the Catholic representation of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic church. There are a few articles that I could use some help evaluating, or getting a wider scientific context to: Since I can't post links yet- a google search for "Catholic League Abuse in...

Yes this crime serves as more evidence that if you really knew all the stuff going on out there in the world you'd never sleep at night. Monique Lynch affidavit: Woman may have buried alive 9-year-old who soiled herself The case against Monique Lynch and Hanif Sims, who were returned to...

Vatican upset over Belgian child abuse investigation. Calls it "unprecedented" BBC story In another BBC story the Vatican even calls the Belgian ambassador to the Vatican to complain. and one more I agree that holding people for nine hours without food or drink is a clear violation of...

I think that religious instruction is child abuse and should be regarded as such. I think that it is morally akin to deliberately exposing a child to HIV. I'm under no illusion that we'll be able to prevent or even reduce religious indoctrination, but I think we need to hold those who do it...

My next door neighbor and friend has a 7 year old daughter with dicipline problems. She hits other children for no apparent reason. Other children won't play with her and shes not popular at school for obvious reasons. Yesterday she hit her younger brother in front of her father. He beat...

Just when you think they couldn't get any worse, the Vatican displays whole new levels of douche-baggery. Oh no, they don't have any responsibility for covering up decades of systematic child-rape - it's just all the godless abortionists & gays trying to smear the Pope... Vatican blasts critics...

I have no problem people teaching religion to their children if it's something like the following: "This is what we believe, it's part of your cultural heritage, and we'd really be happy if you believe it too, but ultimately you are your own person and are free to decide for yourself." But I...

I was reading about reform school abuse in Florida, particularly one which was at one point called the Florida Industrial School for Boys, later the Florida School for Boys, and now the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. The place has been around since 1900 and a bunch of guys who were there in...

Found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20091018/af-nigeria-child-witches/ Katharine Houreld wrote an article about the dangers of being a child in evangelised Nigeria. Here's one more quotation:

Hot on the heels of the mother who got arrested for washing her child's mouth out with soap ( http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156523), comes the case of a mother threatened with an assault charge for hitting her 9 year old child with a wooden spoon...

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Mom-Arrested-for-Washing-Kids-Mouth-With-Soap--64112132.html "Police claim Adriyanna Herdener and Wilfredo Rivera went too far by placing a bar of soap in the girl's mouth and letting it stay for 10 minutes. Herdener did not intervene in the discipline...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-xK5XuCo9cQibH4qrscUG2t-KKgD98O27RG0 I kept waiting to see a thread about this, and if I have missed one, I'll ask the mods to merge the threads. This story shocks me, but I'm not certain if it should. I thought an IQ (yes, yes, I know IQ...

Injected with HIV by dad as baby, teen inspires. Amid the stories of hate like the Tillman murder, here was this story of triumph over tragedy. Here's the Project Kindle web page. The Hope Is Vital seems to be multiple sources rather than a single site. There's a blog by that name but it...

During a Q&A session, one man addresses a minister. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jHqndf9Kx4&feature=player_embedded It is spoken eloquently, and with so much passion. I was moved to tears with the horror and tragedy of what he had to say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse_11 I wish I could say this sort of thing surprised me, but in fact, this is highly reminiscent of the Duplessis Orphans scandal we've had here in Québec. :( As I saw asked on another forum, how will the Vatican weasel...

Here's a depressing look at faith, false beliefs (witches/demons) and the child abuse that results. telegraph.co.uk, by David Harrison 09 Nov 2008 (An older article from 2008) 'Child -witches' of Nigeria seek refuge cnn, by Faith Karimi Mon May 18, 2009 Abuse of child 'witches' on rise, aid...

Judge rules teen must be treated for cancer A Minnesota judge has ruled 13-year-old Daniel Hauser of Sleepy Eye, who has a highly treatable form of cancer, must get medical treatment. By Amy Forliti , Associated Press Last update: May 15, 2009 - 10:29 AM Featured comment Close comment jchild...