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4 April 2016

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

I HATE THIS... when will the catholic church... stop blaming the children??... if this is in the bible... they can burn it... no wonder... there was so much hatred for us girls...and for boys... the sins of our mother's... not a word about the father's sins... were thrashed into us children... and we never knew... what the hell the nuns... were talking about... I didn't know how I came into this world... until I was 24years old... and even then... I did not know the meaning of it all... my mother was raped... I did not know that until  2002...  Ann
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In the past the Christian Church condoned all manner of evil done to children. It tried and executed them for witchcraft and for other offences. It saw nothing wrong in beating them frequently and severely for minor wrongdoing — even for other people's wrongdoing. It terrified them with stories of Hell. It allowed them to contract arranged marriages. It failed to speak out against child labour because it saw nothing at all wrong in the practice. 
For many centuries the Church opposed the education of poor children, except in the few cases where boys could be drawn into its own service. Girls were denied education altogether. In punishing children for sins they had not committed, there seems to have been almost no concept of fairness or rights. Thus, the Church made much of the concept of bastardy: