The Pearls’ parenting manual has been linked to fatal child-abuse prosecutions
Evidence
Michael Pearl and Debi Pearl, To Train Up a Child (Pleasantville, TN: No Greater Joy Ministries, 1994; rev. 2008). For documentation of the Schatz, Williams, and Paddock cases and their connection to the Pearls’ methodology, see Sacramento Bee coverage of the Schatz prosecution (2010–2011); The Seattle Times coverage of the Williams case (2011–2014); and the academic synthesis in Anne Pearson, “Beyond the Spanking Debate: Religious Justifications for Severe Corporal Punishment of Children,” in Children, Spirituality, Religion and Social Work, ed. Daniel Crawford and Steven Lemay (London: Routledge, 2013), 97–115. — , The Rod and the Child, 12192
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Greven, Spare the Child and the long evangelical-to-psychophysical-abuse trajectory cited elsewhere in the bibliography. — connects to: A quiverfull manual prescribing specific implements has been linked to three child deaths. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 11888