Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment

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That’s why we’ve got advice on the types and signs of neglect and what you can do if you’re worried about a child. The Pearls’ teachings have been linked to the deaths of Sean Paddock, Lydia Schatz, and Hana Grace-Rose Williams. It's about giving children the confidence to talk about abuse and equipping them to protect themselves through simple advice. We learn of women whose babies died in childbirth yet are trapped in the womb for days because no one has taken them to the hospital.

He added that the feeling of safety stayed with him later in life; for example, he said he felt God's spirit while he was traveling on mission.

In an illuminating chapter, Heimlich points out the sole mention of children in the Ten Commandments is the threat that God will punish the descendants of “them that hate me. The United States, she points out, is one of only three countries in the world (the others being Somalia and South Sudan) that has chosen not to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. What we're seeing is a great deal of moral outrage, but not so much interest in the targeted work that would make a real difference," one participant noted. Some of these scars might be physical, but emotional scarring has long lasting effects throughout life, damaging a child's sense of self, their future relationships, and ability to function at home, work and school.

Female circumcision, as practiced in the United States and Europe, was actually a result of Christians in the Victorian era. In one Oregon Pentecostal sect, the Followers of Christ, the state's medical examiner has found a death rate among children around 26 times that of the wider population - a stark, if tragic, indicator of the difference made by modern healthcare. A 1998 study that looked at 172 child deaths occurring in church groups that strongly promote faith healing found that most of the victims would likely have survived had they received timely medical care.

Raising children is one of life's greatest challenges and can trigger anger and frustration in the most even-tempered parent or guardian.