Talk:To Train Up a Child

Why are these people not in jail?
Seriously, why not? There's got to be some way to charge them with malpractice... --Gulik (talk) 02:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I for one was just about to post almost the same thing, except suggesting that they be tried for child abuse: One count for every death their terrible "advice" caused :>:(. Even free speech has limits, and I think this crosses the line (and no, I'm not generally a prude who thinks porn or violent media cross the line; on the :contrary, I believe obscenity laws should be struck down on First Amendment grounds.  But this...this is something else...it's akin to yelling "FIRE!" in a theatre, or hate speech)Sensual Endeavor, the sexy pony ;) (talk) 03:24, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I was wondering whether they could be charged with something on the line of accessory or aiding and abetting either murder, manslaughter or at least child abuse - particularly in the light of this one line: "She also was accustomed to smash some of her other adopted sons with a piece of plumbing bought particularly for the purpose, at the Pearls' explicit recommendation".
 * If person A "explicitly recommends" person B buying "a length of quarter-inch plumbing supply line" for the purpose of B using it to whip kids, that sounds like well beyond free speech. I mean, I doubt I would get off scot free if I "explicitly recommended" that someone go and buy a lead pipe for the purpose of whacking some poor bugger over the head with it, or what? If it's not considered OK to whip your kids with "a length of quarter-inch plumbing supply line", I can hardly see why openly advocating such abuse in print is not liable for some sort of punishment. ScepticWombat (talk) 02:16, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Rename it into
To Fuck Up a Child, cause that's what people using this book do.--Arisboch ☞✍☜☞✉☜ ∈)☼(∋ 14:29, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

One idly wonders...
If the Pearl's had grown up in, say, Portland Oregon, might their sadistic impulses have been submlimated into something a little more consensual and constructive?--EFranklin 12:25, 19 January 2016‎ (UTC)

Radio commercial
--104.57.67.200 (talk) 03:00, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The question
What proportion of people of 'all sorts of persuasions' deduce on the merest glance that 'this theory is fifteen flavours of crazy' (and get books that go no further than 'your child will benefit from having routines' etc) - and how many of the people who take up the ideas would have done something like that anyway? Anna Livia (talk) 14:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)