Religion and Child Abuse

[Lethalfind]

"Religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify child abuse, yet

religious motivations for child abuse and neglect have been virtually ignored in social science research. In this paper, we compare victims' retrospective reports of religion-related child physical abuse to other reported cases of child physical abuse. We describe in statistical

detail the nature and circumstances of the abuse, characteristics of victims and perpetrators, and the spiritual and psychological impact of the abuse. Results indicate that although the basic characteristics of religion-related physical abuse are similar to nonreligion-related physical abuse, religion-related abuse has significantly more negative implications for its victims' long-term psychological well-being."

 

http://www.nospank.net/bottoms.pdf#search=%22child%20abuse%20religion%22

 

Above is the abstract only, the paper is very interesting and does tend to support my idea that religion is the root of all evil.

I have been told by people who work in the field that there is a higher occurence of child sexual abuse among the more religious of our society and while looking for support for these statements, ran across this paper.

[hugo]

A link to some left-wing Dr. Spock site. Who gives a flip? The root of all evil is the competition for scarce resources.

[atlantic]

A link to some left-wing Dr. Spock site. Who gives a flip? The root of all evil is the competition for scarce resources.

The route of all evil is selfishness

[eddo]

The route of all evil is selfishness

 

I totally agree