Child beating is enabled by structural conditions, not just individual choices

Evidence

The liberation-theology framework, applied to children, produces a specific analysis: children who are beaten are beaten within structural conditions — poverty, patriarchal family structures, inherited colonial-disciplinary norms, religious-ideological justifications — that make the beating possible. To address the beating at the individual-household level is necessary. To address the structural conditions that produce and normalize the beating is the liberationist commitment. — , The Rod and the Child, 4998

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: a piece on how anti-corporal-punishment advocacy shifts from individual blame to structural reform, mirroring public-health vs. moral-deficiency frames.
• XREF: connects to: The discipline-abuse boundary reflects institutional social power, not empirical discontinuities in parental acts — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10371; Jim Crow terror produced a protective rationale for beating children — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5182

Broader Connections

• The discipline-abuse boundary reflects institutional social power, not empirical discontinuities in parental acts #corroborates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 10371