Norway child abuse case: Why the ‘cultural difference’ defence is bogus

Norway child abuse case: Why the ‘cultural difference’ defence is bogus


“I’m willing to stand and say on national television that you can’t throw parents in jail because they have slapped their kid. You can’t take one incident and bomb a family for it,” declared the always self-righteous Suranya Aiyar on CNN-IBN, “I think, when you are dealing with child welfare, you have to take in account the paradox that very young children adore their parents regardless whether they are harsh parents or they have been slapped for couple of times. And secondly this idea that the parent is just a parent and not a person, parents can get angry, they can shout.”