What is a criminal?: How to solve America's crime crisis with attachment parenting

Many parents think that punishing a child will keep them from becoming a criminal. Most American parents take up the attitude that punishment will keep children from becoming criminals. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. However, the fact of the matter is that most parents do not know what a criminal is, or else they wouldn't be punishing their children.

What is a criminal? A criminal is a person who is dependent on punishment in order to function in society. It is a cognitive impairment of sorts where the person did not internalize the morals of society. They grew a little too used to their parents punishing them, and thus today can't think for themselves in terms of morality. All Americans, by default, are capable of committing a crime under the right/wrong conditions, especially if they had a pro-spanking upbringing. That doesn't mean everyone will. Most crimes are situational offenses.

How does a parent make the effort not to raise a criminal? The key is to model the avoidance of entitlement to children. The Greek root word denoting entitlement in the New Testament, and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and is defined as, officially speaking, want, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, entitlement is the slightest of unattainable want. Most entitlement comes from a deserving attitude, where the individual believes that they deserve things in life. The key to avoiding entitlement is to get an attitude adjustment, meaning declaring oneself a depraved and decadent sinner who is deserving of absolutely nothing, thus is grateful for absolutely everything. Children are watching your every move. If you show entitlement around or towards them - including showing parental entitlement - they will learn to be entitled in order to get their way, creating an entitled child. 

A non-entitled, disciplined example will keep your child away from the streets and away from crime. However, a good example needs to be backed up by something. Punitive parenting only alienates children, and drives them away from the Truth, creating strife and resentment in the home. Attachment parenting is the only way to back up a good Christian example. Christian attachment parenting can be understood using the Christian doctrine of mutual submission. 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. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, jusr as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ in the family home, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children just as they would to God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Parents are to submit to their children as their enemy, from beneath yet from above, revering and fearing children as vulnerable extensions of God. 

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, stemming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and also understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen then as holding your child hostage merely for things that they did wrong, thereby treating their child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context in order to convict a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child.

Children, in biblical times, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they became adults. Women only wore clothing when outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve both their husbands and their children, separately. Mothers served their children by way of providing for them nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin comfort. Children, up until age 6, never left the side of their mothers, ranging beside mothers when at home, clinging to her when crying or upset. When crying or upset, mothers held children close to their bosom in skin-on-skin mammary closeness. When out and about, mothers wrapped up their children next to their bosom in swaddling blankets, maybe offering for the child to suckle her teat if the child was milk-hungry. By night, mothers co-slept next to children in skin-on-skin format, order to form a secure attachment, and also to protect children from all predatory threats, including the sexual entitlement of fathers. Fathers also formed a secure attachment with children by way of witnessing skin-on-skin closeness between mother and child, with the father wanting in on the action by way of a sexual attachment to the child. Fathers imprinted on their children by way of masturbatory orgasm, with the pro-social fantasy leading to a stronger bond between father and child, especially with daughters.

Solving America's crime crisis starts at home. Children need a non-entitled, disciplined example that imparts Judeo-Christian values. Children will then absorb those values coming from that example, and will internalize the morals they are taught by their parents. The problem with punitive parenting is that all the child learns is to avoid punishment, when the child is in a punitive parenting environment. When a child sees a parent's Christian example in an attachment parenting environment, they absorb the values of their parents on their own, at their own pace, usually with the parents having to instruct children little, with instruction usually in the form of redirection. When a child is raised with that kind of discipline, they don't commit crimes, because they know in their heart of hearts that committing crimes is wrong, even if there is a zero percent chance of them getting caught. 

Most criminals operate on the false confidence that they won't get caught, meaning a criminal is someone who depends on punishment, or the threat thereof, in order not to commit crimes. Many criminals commit crimes just to go back to prison. Why is this? Prison provides the same kind of structure that they had growing up, meaning they grew dependent on the structure their parents imposed on them, instead of finding their own structure like in an attachment parenting home. A child in an attachment parenting home, when all grown up, does not need to be policed, because they police themselves and control their own actions.

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