Byline: JAN MOIR
ARE you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin.
Once upon a time, in a land that now seems far, far away, there lived a mummy and a daddy and their lovely little children.
replica rolexBack then, the moral responsibility lay with the mother -- and yes, even the father! -- to bring up their children properly: to teach them right from wrong, to show them how to sit up straight, polish their shoes, say their prayers, be nice to everyone and eat pureed organic carrots without getting it all over their bibs. And so on and so forth.
Some parents did it better than others, of course. Yet in the scramble of life -- taking in the cruelties of the playground, the learning curve of adolescence -- we just about managed to get by.
We did not rear a nation of monsters. We did not try to invade Poland or seize the silk routes. Did we get any thanks for this? No, we did not.
Today, there is no room for childhood innocence. And no allowance made for the assumption of emotional or social parental intelligence.
Are you kidding? Parents can't be trusted to parent any more. In another spasm of misbegotten social tinkering, the Government announced that children as young as five will be given lessons in gender equality as part of the national curriculum.
This is to combat negative attitudes towards girls and women that could -- and I emphasis could -- lead to a tendency for violence.
That should make for an exciting new generation of Janet & John Books. Off to Play (With An Axe). Here We Go (Hitting Mummy Again). See John Run (From Mr Plod The Naughty Policeman).
It is enough to make a hardened wife-beater weep. No longer can the most important thoughts in a tot's mind be ice cream, games, rolex replica cuddles and teddy bears.
Now, their soft little brains are to be clouded by the dark smoke of adult violence before they are barely capable of cogent thought. All this is part of the half-witted ideology this Government is determined to push through before it self-combusts at the next election.
Look, if you are going to have a cross-government strategy to tackle violence against women, why draft tots on to the front line? The prospect of the kind of politically correct monsters who once insisted on the banishment of Punch & Judy now lecturing five-year-olds about gender violence would be laughable, were it not true.
SURELY if you insist on lessons to teach small children it is wrong for men to hit women, then you are implying that all men are a potential menace. Won't the end result be the kind of moral indoctrination that teaches all infants how to hate men? Pol Pot may have quailed at the thought of it, but Harriet Harman must be proud.
It is such a nonsense. One of the real problems to face women in this country is honour crime. Is the Government addressing this properly? No, of course not. They are far too terrified of upsetting any ethnic minority to tackle the issue.
Honour killings are on the increase here and in Europe, the inevitable result of migrant movement and a tectonic clash of ancient and modern cultures.
In societies dominated by patriarchal and religious values, a woman's honour can be regarded as a family commodity, something that confers status and respect. On the menfolk, of course. Not on her.
Everyone is having their say on this. The End Violence A
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