New Law Lets Courts Decide If You Are a Sensitive Enough Parent

New Law Lets Courts Decide If You Are a Sensitive Enough Parent - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A new law in Great Britain could criminalize normal parenting—the kind practice by people who are not perfect every single second of every day.
The so-called "Cinderella Law" expands the definition of child cruelty to include any form of "emotional, psychological or intangible harm," writes barrister Jon Holbrook in SpikedOnline:
Under the amended offence it will be possible for a parent to be convicted of: smacking a child; not providing it with regular meals; leaving a crying baby alone on the petrol forecourt while visiting the station checkout; even ignoring teenage angst. 
Indeed, the wayward and emotionally fragile teenager, not to mention the teenager who dislikes his parents’ style of parenting, should have little difficulty making a case for his parents to be prosecuted. Defenders of the new law may guffaw at these examples, and claim that such prosecutions could never happen, but they are wrong."