LaLaw2000
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Yes, I totally misworded and misread the article. It said the book is sent for free to military families and NOT that it is given out by the military.
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Yes, I totally misworded and misread the article. It said the book is sent for free to military families and NOT that it is given out by the military.
I'd like to find out which churches promote the book, and know exactly why the military gives it out.
And with people who homeschool with the American Training Institute curriculum.
/shudder
Just the idea of that book, plus homeschooling.
How can they get away with giving that book to military families? Would the military condone it if they knew what is in it?
The whole book is available online. I looked through it and trust me, none of the above mentioned things are any better in context.
Disgusting. If three children have reportedly been killed, one can only imagine how many more have died or suffered at their ill-informed parents' hands without catching the attention or concern of CPS and LE.
Change.org has a petition, which apparently has not yet gotten enough signatures to convince Amazon to withdraw the books from their electronic shelves. But one can always let Amazon know that they will be boycotted until they do so.
https://www.change.org/petitions/am...which-advocate-the-physical-abuse-of-children
Besides signing this petition (and sharing it on our facebook pages), we can add our own comments and one-star reviews to sites like Amazon. We can also educate our local bookstores about this book and the deaths that have come from it, and urge them to remove the book from their shelves. I see my beloved Powell's City of Books also carries it. Their CEO will be hearing from me soon.
People have been using religious texts to suit their own ends and justify their own reprehensible actions for millenia.
Proverbs 23:13-14 (King James Version, the version I was raised on. And I was spanked until I was 11 years old!)
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die .
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Yeah, it's not for me, but I did want to chime in that I knew of some blanket training that didn't involve corporal punishment. Since I've heard of more than a few people doing it, I wanted to put it out there in case someone saw/heard someone use the phrase and immediately assumed it meant spanking or beating to ensure compliance.
How is that abusive? While it's not something I would do, I really don't see how putting your small child on a blanket with special toys, for five minutes at a time, to get them used to sitting quietly and playing, is abusive. It's certainly odd and it assumes you can train a child like you can a puppy, but it's not abusive - the only discipline is to put the child back on the blanket if they move and tell them no.
Why are all three kids, dead as a result of following this book, adopted?
My guess is that kids who were in the system and had a poor home life to be taken from their parents, had emotional and behavioral problems, therefore were harder to get to behave than the bio kids.
Affidavit from Hana William's murder:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/66907264/Probable-Cause
It's horrific reading!
Hana's younger brother, also adopted, had a condition where he was leaking urine and he got disciplined when he did so. Who the **** disciplines a child for an accident like that, let alone a condition making him constantly prone to leak?
These so-called Christians doesn't have any trouble lying to protect themselves!