Why attachment parenting is part of our values as a nation

Many parents think that banning the punishment of children, and instating attachment parenting as the national parenting style. This is a common mistake in thinking by the pro-spanking parents on both the left and right of politics. Attachment parenting is here, and is here to stay, expanding and not contracting as a compound. 

America is a Christian nation, founded on Judeo-Christian family values, with our main source of wisdom and moral law as a country coming from the Bible. The Bible is an attachment parenting document, commanding attachment parenting as a tradition in Christian countries such as ours. Most Christian countries in Europe are already on board, whereas most Christian countries in North America are not on board.

Every single parent and adult is guilty in relation to children, and is deserving of DEATH and DESTRUCTION merely for existing in relation to children, with parents/adults being obligated to be meek and shamefaced in relation to children, and with parents being shut up in the Lord. Parents especially are to be convicted of their duties towards their child, putting children first, and parents last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission towards children and their every need, expecting absolutely nothing in return from children or others, with children resting safely and securely in parents. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. This means not fearful surrender to parents, but safe and secure surrender to and rest in the loving arms of parents. This form of surrender to parents involves being able to tell and confess into parents anything and everything under the sun, including wrongful acts, expecting absolutely nothing in return. Attachment parenting was the norm in ancient Israel and adjoining churches. Think a Christian mother holding pales of water, with a young child wrapped up in swaddling blankets next to her bosom, and an older child being tied to the back of mother in a papoose bag. That was how children rested in parents in biblical times. This is how children surrendered to their parents - right in their loving arms, without a care in the world.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or abuse, including child abuse. This means the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by the child. Here, the Apostle Paul is lifting up the Law on punishing children to scofflaw parents of Greek descent bringing the punitive parenting habits of broader Greco-Roman culture into the church. Punishment and controlling behavior towards children carried severe penalties in the Bible, with scofflaw parents who provoked their children to anger through punishment or controlling measures being excommunicated for grand theft/kidnapping. The seven verses in Proverbs that describe the rod of correction are repealed verses, meaning they are only relevant to the context in which they are given. This is because these verses refer to a dated form of judicial corporal punishment only practiced in the Old Testament - the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction, as a last warning before putting an errant ADULT son to death, after as criminal trial as adequate due process. Minor children could not be legally whipped, as children could were deemed incompetent to stand trial for criminal offenses and civil wrongs that they committed. The Early Church, apart from mutual accountability given between spouses by consent, did not practice corporal punishment as a form of church discipline, nor capital punishment. In the case of both capital and corporal punishment under Roman law, Christians were forbidden from participating in such events by church ordinance.

Attachment parenting was the norm in biblical times, with both mothers and fathers having separate roles in parenting children. Mothers were the providers of nourishment and sustenance, namely breastmilk and skin-to-skin closeness and intimacy with children. Mothers breastfed children until age 3, and slept next to their children at night until they were adults. Fathers were simply friends on an equal level, getting along with their children like a human ragdoll, being the more passive parent generally, with this due to connotational parent attraction. Fathers put their children on a pedestal, especially older daughters, speaking of them in baroque, flowery language, with both parents idealizing their children in certain ways, usually in a deifying way.

Parents in biblical times allowed for free play, but with supervision. Most games were high-risk, and many had sexual undertones to them. The most high-risk was "marriage", where a boy and a girl would pretend-play the legal procedures of marriage, which included sexual intercourse to sign the contract on the dotted line. Most children simply embraced to pretend-play that part, but if a boy showed interest in penetrating a girl, the two were quickly separated, the sternest consequence handed out by parents in the Bible. 

Children went naked wherever they went, and this served to bring down the level of attachment to equality, and to allow for skin-to-skin closeness whenever possible. Most mothers wanted to "grow up" with their children, as did fathers, parenting at their level. Whenever children are naked or partially naked in a house, they lower the level of attachment to them to equal level, where parents relate to children as equals, usually in a passive and forgiving manner...Some of this context is dated, but much can be applied today, as long as you dress them as infants when leaving the house, thus getting them used to wearing clothing outside the home, pleasing the secular authorities.

Most all of our values as a country comes from the Bible and its context, as we draw from that context to solve moral problems in our society, such as we did with slavery and Jim Crow. Parental entitlement and the punitive parenting of children are moral problems facing our society today, and the Bible bans it all.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!