Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 2, 2014
A new law in the UK which will criminalize the “emotional abuse” of children could target parents who drink alcohol in front of their children as child abusers, giving the state an opportunity to snatch kids on the flimsiest of pretexts, with parents being punished with up to ten years in jail.
Under the new “Cinderella Law,” denying love to children could be characterized as a crime in the same league as physical or sexual abuse. The definition of such “abuse,” being solely in the hands of the state, opens up a pandora’s box of potential behaviors that could warrant government interference in family life.
Writing for the Independent,
Frank Furedi, a professor of sociology at the University of Kent, warns
that virtually any behavior that could be perceived as harmful to
children could be ensnared by the new law.
“Once the emotional behaviour of parents becomes a
target for policing, every mother and father is at risk of being labeled
an abuser,” writes Furedi, adding, “These days, parents who smoke or
drink alcohol in front of children risk being characterised as
child-abusers….Health activists denounce parents of overweight children
for the same offence. Mothers and fathers who educate their children to
embrace the family’s religion have been characterized as child abusers
by anti-faith campaigners.”
