No Greater Joy: Another child dead from Biblical child-rearing advice
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No Greater Joy: Another child dead from Biblical child-rearing advice
Quote:
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
A couple, with nine children, beat one of them to death and left another in critical condition with kidney failure, while following the teachings on child discipline promulgated by Michael and Debi Pearl, which are very popular in the fundamentalist Christian community and in particular the Christian homeschooling movement. Here's the story at Salon, and check out the links in it, particularly