D&D General The Satanic Panic never really died?

[Bohandas]

Parents have the right to raise their kids the way they want

I strongly disagree with this statement

 

[FrogReaver]

I strongly disagree with this statement

It's not a controversial statement. What do you disagree with about it?

 

[Garthanos]

The reason we can have child abuse cases is because you do not have unlimited authority over your children. Just like you can no longer have your child stoned in the corner square over disobedience.

 

[Lanefan]

It's not a controversial statement. What do you disagree with about it?

It's not controversial given reasonable parents.

But a few parents, unfortunately, aren't reasonable. In the extreme they beat their kids, or starve them, or otherwise abuse them; in the less-extreme they bring them up as criminals or worse; and in these cases "the right to raise their kids any way they want" becomes rather controversial indeed.

 

[Garthanos]

Losing your indoctrination of anti religion bias will be

LOL so I get threats? yay

 

[FrogReaver]

It's not controversial given reasonable parents.

But a few parents, unfortunately, aren't reasonable. In the extreme they beat their kids, or starve them, or otherwise abuse them; in the less-extreme they bring them up as criminals or worse; and in these cases "the right to raise their kids any way they want" becomes rather controversial indeed.

Its not about reasonableness. It's about abuse. Obviously abusing your kids is wrong and parent shouldn't be able to do that. But they should be able to raise them in the way they want.

 

[Garthanos]

Is teaching kids the world is flat abuse. Home schooling them and keeping them unexposed to many many things is indeed not allowed. So the borderlines are not so extreme

 

[Lanefan]

Is teaching kids the world is flat abuse. Home schooling them and keeping them unexposed to many many things is indeed not allowed. So the borderlines are not so extreme

Home schooling's not allowed? That's news to me.

(that said, I'm in Canada and you're in (the USA?), and the laws might be different there)

 

[Garthanos]

It's impossible that it could have been debunked. There isn't a study that could control for every possible factor in order to debunk it.

It was a Heart Surgery instance and Done by Harvard
It was statistically sound with 1800 people (6 different hospitals) but as I said it was a narrow type of prayer. In fact some people will try and say the findings seemed to be that the believer who knew people were praying for them might have given up fighting for their life a little or something. But from a detailed analysis what I read was that little mini-conclusion had a low factor and was probably a statistical anomaly. The overall impact of prayer was none at all.

 

[Garthanos]

Home schooling's not allowed?

Home schooling to prevent them from learning things like the world being a globe is one such example. there was an AND in the sentence you abandoned it.

You can of course homeschool.