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Parents plotted to sexually assault their baby at two months, and began planning before child was born, cops say (www.independent.co.uk)

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The couple was arrested after police found evidence of the sexual assault on Skyler Klassen’s phone

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But who decides what are ‘pedagogically approved methods’? Keeping an approval body independent of government would be nigh-impossible, and even in well-intentioned groups the best ideas of how to care for a child change.

After all, it wasn’t so long ago that ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ was thought to be the best method; in many places, it still is. In Nazi Germany the approved method was to ignore your baby. Let them cry, force them into a schedule, deny them human contact (holding and cuddling were very frowned upon).

Mothers eager to do their best for their country followed those rules to a T, believing their government that claimed it was for the best. And the disastrous results are still being felt almost a century later.

What we need really is to all be taught critical thinking skills (hmm, denying contact to the child of a social species might be a bad idea hmmm…) and how to apply them across all parts of life, I think.