Sentences with phrase «cruelty does to children»

Not exact matches

While we need to avoid the cruelty to children that arises when society assumes that their resilience allows them to flourish in any family unit however configured, we also need to avoid the cruelty of rejecting outright or devaluing all families that do not fit the norm.

These ministers represent the kind of Christian that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentalism, cruelty, and, too often, drive for power and money.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

Where do you answer the part about how a child rationalizes the abstract concept of cruelty to themselves?

Create the opportunity for the child to discover his own compassion, by seeing for himself the pain that has been inflicted on animals by acts of cruelty; and affording him the joy and reward of doing a good thing — volunteering for an afternoon or a day helping the veterinarians there.

When children do not prioritize caring and fairness in relation to their self - concerns — and when they view their peers as even less likely to prioritize these values — there is a lower bar for many forms of harmful behavior, including cruelty, disrespect, dishonesty, and cheating.

Miller said, «You don't put child molesters over the nursery and you don't put people who committed animal cruelty in a position to take care of animals who have been victims.»

Organizations doing amazing work, that desperately need our help to continue with rescues, adoptions, building proper shelter facilities, getting proper medical care, low cost spay and neuter programs, helping to teach children kindness and compassion through animals, and advocacy programs such as fighting against cruelty and working to fight against breed discrimination.

He is nothing more than a spokesperson for that group of people, people who probably «picked wings off of flies» as children with no concern for wanton cruelty to living things (and should have been sent to bed without their supper to think about what they did).

She compares the government's current approach to child obesity with the law's approach towards animal cruelty and suggests that the criminal law offers more protection to animals than it does to children.

Domestic violence, cruelty to your spouse, mental illness that does not respond to treatment, religious affiliation or activity that might have adversely affected the child, and homosexuality are all examples of parental conduct that will carefully be examined by the courts.