Many parents demand that their child love them. Most parents in the United States get their parenting advice from religious sources, instead of scientific or medical sources. When you understand the Bible to the fullest extent possible, you understand that the anti-spanking researchers are right. There is no need for a child to "love parents".
It says in Ephesians 6:1-3 KJV:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, for this is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long upon the earth.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and literally translates to "listen under" and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents, owing nothing in return to parents. This refers to being able to tell parents anything, disclose any struggle, including even struggle that most people wouldn't understand or would shun.
This isn't the same as Christian love. Love is to start in the reverse - parents love their children. Christian love for a child is denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to sacrificing for your child, just as Christ sacrificed Himself for His children, paying the ultimate price for the good of His children. This is the spirit in which parents should carry out their jobs. It is submission to an enemy, seeking to redeem oneself as her friend, being convicted of one's sin nature and capacity to abuse children, never more knowing what it is like to be a child, leading to bondervice to the every vulnerable need of a child, doing penance for one's wretched adult existence, expecting absolutely nothing from a child.
True love for a parent, by a young child, is too burdensome. Caring about parents? Yes, all children care about their parents to some degree, but love is more than caring - it is bondservice to your child, being righteously enslaved to their every need. It is paying due penance for being the entitled parent that you are by nature. Children, on the other hand, shouldn't be concerned about what they are capable of. Love, in early childhood especially, is a one-way street, as love is a burdensome verb for a child. Parents love their children, be quiet about their whiny complaints, expecting absolutely nothing in return from a child. Children may come to love their parents when they become adults, but that love is earned, and should not be expected at any age.
The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Corporal punishment of children shall not exist anywhere within the borders of the United States of America, and if you defend your right to impose it on a child, YOU shall not exist, but since murder is wrong, exist in a prison cell, once it becomes a crime here in Pennsylvania, and every state in the nation, and under federal child abuse statutes. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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