—written by both Carolyn and Monte Holland
When considering child abuse from the Scriptural perspective there are some important questions. Below is an attempt to answer some of them.
First: Children must be MADE to OBEY (their parents), right?
Obedience IS important. Ephesians 6:1, 4 and Colossians 3:20-21 instruct children to be obedient. However, this directive does not stop there: it continues on (more…)
It was another horrifying headline. The kind that are becoming all too common, but with a unique twist: “Mother charged with beating quadruplets.”
I read on. An Arizonian mother, 24 years old, gave birth nine weeks prematurely to three boys and one girl at the time the nation was riveted by the story of the McCaughey septuplets in Iowa.
The mother in Arizona also had a six-year old daughter with Down’s Syndrome.
She was arrested on fourteen counts of child abuse. One son was hospitalized in a (more…)
This post raises many questions about child safety, as does another issue: children “left” alone in cars. Recently a mother left a sleeping child in a car, within her sight, while she took two older children to drop coins in a nearby Salvation Army kettle. The article related that moments later she was arrested and the focus of a police investigation and a state child welfare agency. Bloggers apparently are debating whether she was negligent or whether the police overstepped their bounds. What do you think? Leave your comments below.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337012,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=4445064
Five Pittsburgh children ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 died in a 1:30 a.m. fire recently.
Two 8-year olds survived. There was no adult in the home at the time of the fire, allegedly caused (more…)
