Children aren't able to distinguish fact from fiction. If you tell them monsters exist, they will believe you. If you teach them that not believing the right ideas will result in an eternity burning in a lake of fire, they will believe it. If you teach them jesus is coming back to whisk all good christians away to heaven, leaving everyone else to burn in hell, they will believe you. Isn't this child abuse?
2006-11-02 06:15:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not child abuse. Locking your child in a closet for days at a time with no food or water is child abuse. Reading to them from the Bible and teaching them right from wrong is not child abuse.
2006-11-02 06:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by BeezKneez 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No, it's teaching them about a religion. I'm sure you know that many religions have similar ideas to Christianity, so, your criticizing a lot more people than you realize. Also, if you believe that telling children such stories is child abuse, then I guess every child who was told about the tooth fairy has been abused. You clearly don't know the definition of abuse and just wanted to try and make a bunch of Christians mad.
2006-11-02 06:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by lelecw14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like any education there is need to "start with the basics". A child properly raised in The True Christian Faith will go theough several stages of learning... just like in a properly functioning shool of any kind... The earliest will be the simplest and will be the Love of God and all that is... demonstrated by loving parents... then...depending on the maturity development of the child it will proceed through all levels ending at , hopefuly, a ripe old age, with perhaps some understanding of God's Word and Will... .....
Study in The Christian Faith is ongoing throughout life... a child should never be expected to understand what one of the Faith for many years knows... and the child has no need to know that level... The Child who knows God will know The Truth of The Rapture... and will know that there is nothing to fear from Hell... because those of The Faithe will not face that...
A child raised in The True Christian Faith will know The Love of God... and not have any fear of that which those with out faith fear so much... that being the unknown... For a child of God there is no unknown to fear...
2006-11-02 06:24:15 · answer #3 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you tell your children not to get into a stranger's car because bad people will take them away, they will believe you. If you tell your children that smoking cigarettes is dangerous, they will believe you.
I say that you're right. Teaching our children about our beliefs and the dangers of the outside world is wrong. We should let them all grow up (if they can) believing that anything they do is fine.
There are no rules in life, hurt whoever you want, break whatever laws you want, rape or kill whoever you want and there are no concequences to your actions. Do you have any idea where we would live if that actually happened? Right where we are today.
2006-11-02 06:24:32 · answer #4 · answered by Electro760 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Like everything you give information according to age. I DO believe it is wrong to give children deep and frightening information before they are old enough to process it. Just like the movie Mel Gibson made...it was not a movie for children. Young children should be taught about the postive of Christ and not the deep things their minds cannot understand without causing fear.
2006-11-02 06:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by maybe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure, i think of that's thoroughly incorrect to slap a new child of any age interior the face. that's a maximum cowardly act. I do in spite of the incontrovertible fact that recommend spanking yet in basic terms in severe circumstances and continually on the posterior. yet all and sundry who would slap a new child interior the face disgusts me.
2016-10-03 05:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I consider it child abuse if you don't teach your children about God We are to bring up our children in the ways of the Lord. Children are so innocent and tender that's why alot of people that are saved accepted Christ as a child because when get older and out in the world our heart hardens.
2006-11-02 06:21:54 · answer #7 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Absolutley not my daughter is 5 and she knows right from wrong she knows Jesus does not like lieing and steeling and she knows Jesus wants her to obey her mom because thats obeying Jesus as long as the parent is obeying God. At a young age decernment is a good thing. In the Bible it says teach while at a young age and when there older they shall not lead astray. Tell them the truth never lie to them.
2006-11-02 06:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Would you stop a blind man from walking over a 1000ft cliff?
... I just tell my kids where the cliff is and how to avoid it. They'll make their own decisions later. People have been told from various ages and they still go to the cliff. Not believing in it doesn't erase it.
2006-11-02 06:21:35 · answer #9 · answered by ScottyJae 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No it is not child abuse to tell your own child about Church. It's going a little too far when people are crying child abuse because a parent is raising their child to believe in Jesus.
2006-11-02 06:18:46 · answer #10 · answered by flashypsw 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋