I have a LOT of Amish friends. I feel sorry for their children, too. I don't think that gives me, or anyone else, a right to barge in and take them to raise them the way I think is right.

A child who is being abused -- starved, beaten, raped -- should be removed. We don't allow adults to be treated that way, and we certainly shouldn't allow children to be treated that way. Other than that, though, we really do need to allow parents to parent. Even when we don't particularly think they are doing the best job of it.

So what was in the book that particularly got to you? Do you believe the children are routinely beaten (beyond what most would accept as spanking, which I also dislike but would make allowance for)?