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\"\"<\/a>If you\u2019re a long-time reader, you\u2019re likely aware\u00a0my series on HSLDA and child abuse<\/a>, which includes\u00a0their fight against child abuse reporting<\/a>,\u00a0their stonewalling of child abuse investigations<\/a>, and\u00a0their defense of child abuse<\/a>. You\u2019ve probably also read my viral \u201cHSLDA: Man Who Kept Kids in Cages \u2018a Hero.\u2019<\/a>\u201d If you read Homeschoolers Anonymous<\/a>, you probably know that Doug Phillips, former HSLDA attorney and founder of the now-defunct Vision Forum, stated in 2009 that<\/a> \u201cWe understand that the core problem with Child Protective Services is its existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

What you may not be aware of is that in 1985 Mary Pride published a book titled\u00a0The Child Abuse Industry: Outrageous Facts About Child Abuse & Everyday Rebellions Against a System that Threatens Every North American Family<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Who is Mary Pride<\/a>? If you\u2019ve ever homeschooled, you\u2019ve almost certainly heard of her. She has had so much influence in homeschooling circles that has been dubbed \u201cthe queen of the homeschool movement.\u201d Historian Milton Gaither has dubbed Pride as one of homeschooling\u2019s two most influential curriculum reviewers.\u00a0Pride first published her\u00a0Big Book of Home Learning<\/a>\u00a0in 1986 and has updated it regularly since. It now has four volumes. Pride is also the publisher of the \u201cwildly popular\u201d\u00a0Practical Homeschooling<\/a>\u00a0magazine, with as many as 100,000 subscribers, and has published numerous other popular homeschooling how-to books. Pride is also the author of The Way Home<\/a><\/em>, published in 1985 and credited with launching the Quiverfull movement (not to be confused with the Patriarchy movement<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And then, of course, there is The Child Abuse Industry<\/em>.\u00a0According to R.L. Stollar, the book is \u201ca remarkable read that calls for a \u201cSecond North American Revolution\u201d \u2014 namely, having babies, abolishing no-fault divorce, going to church, eliminating foster care, homeschooling, re-instituting \u201cbiblical\u201d executions of criminals, and getting rid of abuse hotlines.\u201d Stollar is currently writing a multi-part review, which I will definitely promote when it comes out.<\/p>\n

Here are ten quotes from Pride\u2019s book, courtesy Stollar\u2019s post on Homeschoolers Anonymous<\/a>:<\/p>\n

10. \u201cThe major problem is that the public has been convinced that child abuse is a major problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. \u201cAre one out of four adult women (or one out of three, or two\u2014the statistics keep getting wilder) really the victims of savage lust perpetrated in their youth?Isn\u2019t it possible to organize a bridge party without staring at an abused woman across the table?\u00a0Where do these wild statistics come from?\u201d<\/p>\n

8. \u201cNever vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include \u2018doing more for children.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

7. \u201cChild abuse hysteria is a self-righteous coverup for anti-child attitudes.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. \u201cIf [child abuse prevention programs] are allowed to proliferate, we will produce for the first time an entire generation of males who have been trained to consider raping their sons and daughters as passably normal behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. \u201cIf sex has nothing to do with having babies,\u00a0you can have sex with anyone or anything. Including children.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. \u201cWe need to stop allowing the unsupported testimony of childrenwho are of an age where they can barely distinguish fantasy and reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. \u201cDon\u2019t hotline\u00a0anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. \u201cA retarded daughter told contradictory tales of sexual abuse by her step-brother and other male relatives\u2026 So\u00a0here we have a girl who probably made up the story in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

1. \u201cAge segregation increasingly alienates children and adults.\u00a0Children are the \u2018new n*****s.\u2019\u201d (not censored in Mary Pride\u2019s version.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My interest piqued by Stollar\u2019s quotes, I cracked open my copy of HSLDA\u2019s Chris Klicka\u2019s 2006 book, Homeschool Heroes: The Struggle and Triumph of Homeschooling in America<\/em><\/a>. I opened to the chapter on social workers.<\/p>\n

At Risk from Social Workers<\/strong><\/p>\n

. . . \u00a0Homeschoolers are at risk. They are not at risk because they have big families or teach their children at home or neglect their children in any way. They are at risk because the child welfare system has lost control. Many social workers are trained in a philosophy that is antiparent, antifamily, and antireligious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can\u2019t say I\u2019m surprised, but here it is again. Look, I know that social services isn\u2019t perfect, and that it\u2019s badly in need of better funding. But that\u2019s not what this sounds like it is about. According to Klicka, the issue isn\u2019t that social services is underfunded and understaffed, but rather that social services is antifamily<\/em>. This is the same sort of line Mary Pride was promoting in her book.<\/p>\n

HSLDA is both a policy advocacy and legal defense group. HSLDA defends member families if they have any problems in their interaction with local public schools or social services. The organization\u2019s website describes it like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Why does HSLDA help member families in the initial stage of a child abuse investigation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

HSLDA\u2019s mission is primarily to advance homeschooling rights. Sometimes homeschooling parents get reported to CPS because people misunderstand homeschooling. They may see children playing outside during school hours and think that the parents are allowing them to be truant. Other times, families are reported for other types of suspected abuse or neglect. Investigations of all such allegations begin the same way: a social worker visits the family\u2019s home, or contacts them requesting to set up a visit.<\/p>\n

HSLDA advises our members in these initial contacts with social workers in order to ensure that their constitutional rights are protected. Once the allegations are revealed, we continue to represent our members if the allegations relate to homeschooling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, according to HSLDA\u2019s website, they advise member families any time there is a social worker at the door, but only represent member families going forward if the allegations involve homeschooling.\u00a0Along these same lines, an announcement on HSLDA\u2019s facebook page last year<\/a>\u00a0asserted that \u201cHSLDA does not and will not ever condone nor defend child abuse. But some of the stories Klicka relates from his years working for HSLDA tell a different story.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s this one, for instance:<\/p>\n

A homeschool father in Michigan picked up his two-year-old child by the arms, taking her into the house while she was crying and was reported for child abuse by a nosy neighbor. I set up a meeting with the social worker and counseled the family on what htey should say. I told themI told them to explain their religious convictions concerning raising their children from \u201ca positive standpoint\u201d avoiding Bible verses like if \u201cyou beat him with the rod, he will not die.\u201d Or, if you \u201cbeat him with the rod,\u201d you will \u201cdeliver his soul\u201d from hell. Not a good idea. Social workers just don\u2019t understand those verses.<\/p>\n

Instead I told them to explain their beliefs by emphasizing verses such as Matthew 18:6 that states that if you harm or offend a child, it is better that a millstone be tied around your neck and you be thrown in the deepest part of the ocean. In other words, their religious convictions demand that they not do anything that will harm their children. When the family began presenting these religious beliefs to the agent, he became visibly uncomfortable, and suddenly announced that he would close the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this one:<\/p>\n

In Fairfax County, Virginia, a pastor gave a seminar on child discipline that included the requirement in the Bible to spank. A parishioner had to discipline her child while a neighbor was visiting a few days later. She spanked the child in the other room and then explained to the neighbor a little of what she had learned from the pastor.<\/p>\n

The neighbor, who happened to be against spanking, reported the pastor to the child welfare agency for \u201cbruising their children and for twenty-minute spanking sessions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To clarify, this suggests the pastor spoke in his sermon of bruising his children and carrying out twenty-minute spanking sessions.<\/p>\n

The social worker who then initiated the investigation told me she thought she might have a religious cult on her hands that abuses children. I expressed my disbelief to the social worker that she was seriously investigating what an anonymous source claimed she heard from a person who heard it from another person. That is thrice removed hearsay. I told her that her evidence was flimsy and set the parameters for a meeting.<\/p>\n

In preparation for the meeting, I told the homeschooling pastor and his wife not to recount any specific incidents of spanking since the social worker had nothing on the family that would stand up in court. I told them that they should emphasize again the positive verses such as Matthew 18:6. Since the social worker had no evidence, the only evidence she could acquire would be from what information she could gather from the pastor and his wife. Since the parents carefully avoided all specific examples and spoke in general terms, the social worker had nothing and had to close the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps those at HSLDA would argue that they never defended someone against child abuse in court<\/em>. But in this layman\u2019s eyes, this constitutes defending child abuse. I mean, did they even ask the pastor if it was true that he bruised his children and spanked them in twenty-minute sessions? Or did they de facto believe he was innocent and not bother checking, as seems to be their habit?\u00a0I\u2019ve expressed my frustration with this before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And there is a similar distrust of children\u2019s testimony with Klicka as with Pride:<\/p>\n

Another family in Bradington, Florida, was visited by social workers. Allegations were made by one of their seven adopted children, who was the only one not being homeschooled. He had made up a story and told it to his science teacher, who had then passed the information to a social worker. I was able to talk to the social worker and keep them out of the home and away from the children. The case was finally listed as unfounded. The mom said, \u2018This is why I spend twenty-six cents a day. People are crazy not to join HSLDA. I have an attorney ready to help me at a moment\u2019s notice.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is also advice on how to hide abuse and avoid being reported:<\/p>\n

Know Your Family Doctor<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have had numerous situations where doctors turned homeschoolers in to social workers because they found a bruise or mark on the child . . . I learned early on that each family needs to know their doctor well. If the doctor is familiar with the patients and trusts them, they do not have to turn them over to a child welfare agency, even if they have a mark or bruise. It is completely the doctor\u2019s discretion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The orientation toward social services is the same in Klicka\u2019s book as in Pride\u2019s\u2014one of opposition. They are the enemy. In fact, Klicka began his chapter on social workers with I Peter 5:8-9\u2014\u201cBe sober; be vigilant; for your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.\u201d The assumptions about the veracity of the parents\u2019 and children\u2019s testimony is the same\u2014parents\u2019 word can be trusted, children\u2019s cannot.<\/p>\n

We need to be careful not to assume that all homeschoolers engage in this sort of denialism and defense of child abuse. I do not know whether the themes explored here extend beyond the leaders of the conservative Christian homeschooling subculture, and we should not assume that we do. But with that subculture, this is a problem. With these sorts of narratives, how can we expect those within this subculture to even self-police, much less report suspicions of abuse?<\/p>\n

From Pride\u2019s\u00a0The Child abuse Industry\u00a0<\/em>to Michael Farris\u2019s thrill-horror novel Anonymous Tip<\/em>, this is a problem.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, and also? If there are Christian homeschoolers out there who are upset by what I\u2019ve said here, the correct response is to go about condemning the words of these Christian homeschool leaders and creating a new narrative, a narrative that affirms reporting suspicions of child abuse and doesn\u2019t de facto trust parents\u2019 word over that of their children. Condemning me for saying these things or arguing that I am anti-homeschooling would be the incorrect response.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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