How child abuse should be reported: Weighing children's rights with pedophile rights

 Many parents abuse their children here in the United States, meaning most all parents abuse at least some of the time. Mandatory reporting laws exist in all 50 states, and did, in fact, come from this movement. I am not opposed to mandated reporting in the modern context especially, but support reform for mandatory reporting laws.

In most states, the standard for reporting any form of child abuse is "reasonable suspicion", except in Pennsylvania, where the standard is "admission by any client over age 14". Pennsylvania's laws are balancing child and pedophile rights, but in other states, it isn't, and it is a deterrent for pedophiles for seeking mental health services in their communities.

What we need is self-reporting as the standard to go by, with children being empowered to figure out if they are in an abusive situation, and then report their parents on their own by dialing 9-1-1, either by perhaps locking themselves in their room, going next door, or to the corner with their cell phone.

Our laws should reflect the book that gave us our norms and customs, the Bible. It says in Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to the offenses under the Law, summed up in the New Testament as the slightest of personal slights imposed on a child, guided by entitlement. Entitlement is denoted by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to wanting things from the child to the point of imposing said want onto a child. Thus, anything that the child perceives as offensive or abusive objectively is.

Most children in my experience don't hate pedophiles, meaning the individuals, but hate the disorder they have in relation to their person, meaning children hate pedophilia at a level lower than any adult, meaning the instinctual level. They don't need to know that word. Just teach them to trust their gut, and you're good. If you are saying "that kid framed me", nope, you did it, and you're going to jail.

Many pedophiles have been abused by therapists by way of alienation abuse. This can include something as little as sending the pedophile on his way without a referral, or worse, reporting him to the authorities if he had any contact with children at all in the course of his life. We should care because when pedophiles get the mental health services they need, they can easily choose not to abuse children. It's just commonsense. 

We should set up society so that children are empowered to call immediately if they are struck or even yelled at by a parent or similarly charged adult. Then, we won't need mandated reporting laws.