Are Jehovah's witnesses advocates of child abuse?

Question

Every time I went to a meeting I saw children getting beaten. It was so disturbing.

Answer 1

The children are well behaved because they know they will be beaten. This doesn't mean they know right from wrong, it means do what mom and dad say or else be beaten. Children who are beaten grow up to be angry, bitter, rebelious teens and adults who don't speak to their parents. Children should be guided and treated with respect.

Answer 2

The problem with a question like this and the answers given is that everything is black and white. Always, never, and the like are really overused.

Have I seen a witness child spanked? Yes

Have I seen a non-witness child spanked? Yes

Are there witness children who are abused? A DEFINATE possibility.

Are there non-witness children who are abused? Yes

As with any good parent, I want my children to be well behaved. I don't want them to be disruptive whether we are at the Kingdom Hall or at Wal-Mart. My children are disciplined. I wish there were other parents as concerned about the adults there children will grow up to be as I am.

Answer 3

that is a lie. when a child acts up just like any child would, we punish the child. but at the meetings the children sit and listen to the talk. yes it is hard for children to sit still and we take the child into the bathroom but they are never hit. that is a lie. no Jehovah Witness child was ever abused. the children are not brainwashed either. also we are not racist. we are colored blind just like Jehovah is. we worship all together. and we sit together and hug each other. we are a worldwide family in 235 lands.

Answer 4

Disfellowshipped JW
1982 Corning, CA Congregation
For cause, but not the ones some ex-JWs who want to put themselves on a pedestal, want you to believe, and know you will without question.

This question is like the accusation I've seen made against divorced and single fathers for the last 18 years. Over 60% of men seeking custody of visitation right WILL be accused of sex abuse of the children. It starts out with allegations of physical abuse, than within two years to sexual abuse. Less 5% of the cases are found to be true. In a local case, a woman scratched her child between the legs, than accuse the father of physical and sexual abuse. He was in a Salvation Army domestic violence shelter with the child. He was arrested, but later released when they figured out what she had done. They wouldn't let him back into the shelter.

Allegations are easy. Everyone believes them without question. The media reports abuse allegations, but not when they are disproved. It is also easy to fake abuse.

People who fear the JWs, because they seem to be the only organization to be living in the light of Christ, make up allegations. Are they all false, no more than all the allegations against fathers are false, but it is also not as flagrant as claimed. Nor is it covered up. When I was young, I was involved in just such a case in Escondido, CA where elders took it to the police. The person I was accusing was the son of an elder.

If you're going to spread lies and distortions, you need to try harder. Other people are a lot better at it.

Answer 5

After my sister in law attended her first meeting, I asked her what she thought?

Her response, "The children are so well behaved."

I said yes, and asked her again what she thought of the meeting?

Her response, "The children are so well behaved."

Yes we discipline our children, Are they getting beaten?

No.

Have I seen a child get beaten?

Never.

Have I seen children screaming as they leave the auditorium, Yes, were these children beaten?

No,

but the children knew they were going to be disciplined and even before their discipline they start to scream.

Every child can be a good actor, watch a child whose mother isn't around, see when they start to cry.

Answer 6

The bible says to stick to all rules. It additionally says in basic terms some can stand to bypass with out intercourse. as quickly as you initiate perverting the awareness of God it somewhat is a landslide. have you ever examine Revelations the place God addresses the quite a few sins of the church homes. See the real issue is that God insists you lay down all grudges in the previous you come to the altar and pray. no longer what God is going to do approximately those poor crimes and their victims yet what you're refusing to do. Lay down your hate against the clergymen and the church. Open up the compassion this is on your coronary heart for the victims and the destiny ought to be victims and pray that despite forces exist in our international that reason those horror be stopped of their tracks. Pray for secure practices for absolutely everyone who seeks God. Pray for exposure and therapeutic for absolutely everyone who could harm yet another. give up hating and shaking heads and have confidence and pray. it works so lots better.

Answer 7

I watched a News Documentary on them a few years back. They are just as quilty of covering over child abuse, as the other institutions. Generally-they never wash thier robes.

Answer 8

Of course not, don't be ridiculus. Everybody is a different person, and you shouldn't say something like that about all of them. So you saw a kid getting disiplined. Good for them for actually doing something when they do somehting wrong.

Answer 9

On the contrary. the JW has been charged many-many times in the court for child abuses as they force the children when they are brainwashed to accept their strict and unreasonable discipline. I know several people who died because they refuse to have blood transfusion. Shedding of blood is prohibited in the Bible, but giving of blood is not the act of murder but of saving life.

Answer 10

No. It's called actually discipling your children so they wont grow up to be in jail for 50 years