> On 6 Sep 2014, at 20:41, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > > > John Sundman wrote: >>> Shiv says "In Britain the state attempts to protect vulnerable >> children from physical and emotional abuse by parents," and then >> insinuates, if I understand him correctly, that this impulse to >> protect children from abusive parents is somehow correlated to the >> kidnapping and rape of children in Rotherham. > > Yes. There is a correlation. > > Parental control of children has loosened up from state intervention. > You cannot regulate a rebellious 12 year old child's ill advised actions > because if parental actions go beyond a point that can even be called > "emotional abuse" let alone physical beating - the parents can get > arrested, which sort of defeats the purpose. The state watches the > parents. > > Once the child is out on the streets she can be tempted by older wealthy > men - as described in the article, if you actually bothered reading it. > > Somehow, it appears that Asian families with their restrictions on their > daughters do not get subjected to the same standards of state scrutiny > on whether there is any emotional abuse going on there > >>> I'm not even going to try to parse the discussion of "honor >> killings" or of how "consensual sex" is somehow tied to child rape. > > Honor killings is about excessive parental control over the sexuality of > the child. Sex, consensual or not is just not on - the girl is not even > allowed out of home without supervision. However, once a child is out on > the street her abuse (as described in the article) starts with > consensual sex, drugs and later blackmail. > Consider then this gruesome report from Pakistan. http://www.dawn.com/news/1129614/
Consider also the possibility that victims of child sex abuse who are of Asian origin in the UK are less likely to report abuse. > > > > > > > >
