A hiding to nothing?
Heather Tinker
The NSPCC is a well respected charity that has been working for the benefit of children for many years, but now we find that it is undermining biblical values in regard to the upbringing of children and has mounted a vigorous campaign against physical punishment.
Draft laws were put before our parliament and assemblies to make smacking a child a criminal offence. They were defeated because it was deemed that our child abuse laws are quite adequate for dealing with any real abuse that takes place. The NSPCC has produced a booklet called 'Encouraging better behaviour. A practical guide to positive parenting'. This sounds promising until you look inside and see that it comes from a thoroughly secular humanistic world view and is very emotive in its dealing with physical punishment, compared to a naively unrealistic approach to other means of behaviour management.
Hidden child abuse in our society
Heather Tinker
Quite rightly, our society has many initiatives and laws aimed at irradicating child abuse.
However, I would like to suggest that there is one area of abuse which is being ignored because it would affect the freedom of adults in a way that would be unacceptable in our pleasure-seeking society. This abuse is that which children suffer when their parents' relationship breaks down.
