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Fundamentalists regard parents as being accountable only to God for the manner in which they bring up their children. J. Richard Fugate makes this quite explicit in his book What the Bible Says About ... Child Training. According to him the parents' word is law in regard to the children and they have the right to force their children to obey their every command. The Bible gives the government no right to intervene in the relationship between parent and child except in cases of incest, injury or death. He even claims that compulsory public education, child advocacy agencies and child abuse laws are cases of the government usurping the sovereign authority of parents. He also claims that one should not intervene when a parent is being cruel or unfair because only God has the authority to judge parents and mortals should leave it to Him. Furthermore he states that God may want the child to glorify Him through suffering or the child may need harsh treatment in order to learn to submit to the parent's authority.43 This idea is strongly reminiscent of the Hindu idea that one should not help someone who has fallen on hard times because that person's misfortunes are the work of karma for past misdeeds and any help would only lengthen the person's suffering.
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