Parents criminalised?
A sweeping parenting law that would criminalise emotional neglect was included in the Queen’s Speech on June 4.
The Christian Institute
The new law would carry a maximum prison sentence of ten years for anyone who deliberately harms a child’s ‘physical, intellectual, emotional, social or behavioural development’. But critics have warned against the legislation, saying it would mean that ‘every mother and father is at risk of being labelled an abuser’.