Shelia had many opinions about many things, but none as strong as about Spiritual Child Abuse or Neglect. She found it sad that all are universally outraged when they hear reports of child's physical abuse or a child found after years of physical neglect. But no similar concern, outrage or consideration given to the Spiritual abuse or spiritual neglect of a child. She believed for a parent to deprived a child of spiritual feeding by not bringing them to bible class or teaching them about God from the moment they were born was Spiritual Abuse. We occasionally discussed mandatory reporting laws required of various professions or the instinctive intervention a stranger would make to stop the physical abuse of child. Would that there would be the same concern, outrage and action on behalf of the child living in an environment of spiritual neglect.
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