Offending the Children

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Questions for this Chapter —

1. Distinguish between ‘offending’ and ‘despising’ children.
2. What is to be said of parents whose children have ‘no sense of ought’?
3. Trace the steps by which a mother’s “no” comes to be disregarded.
4. Why must parents themselves be law-compelled?
5. Show that parents may offend their children by disregarding the laws of health.
6. Show that parents may offend their children by disregarding the laws of the intellectual life.
7. Show that parents may offend their children by disregarding the laws of the moral life.

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