I agree with you PMB, but the programme I happen to be commenting on was about people who claimed that they were being instructed by god to abuse their children in this way, physically. mentally and emotionally - the children weren't especially clever or in any way special, just what their parents had made them. I can't say I've seen many kids being forced to like folk music - my 17-year old can't stand it but my 8-year old thinks it's brilliant, is desperate to play fiddle like Eliza and has Bellowhead on every waking hour (could probably count as parent abuse).

I think the point I'm trying to make is, why aren't right-minded religious people stopping this from happening? Remember Burke's epithet: 'Evil flourishes when good men do nothing'.