Hot take
Scriptures accurate Hinduism needed more points about autonomy and welfare of children than it needed about women or any caste and class.
Because one, the notion women or anyone were mistreated because what's written in the religious texts isn't right. (No Manusmriti is not a religious text)
Second, there is NO mentions or practices of parent's duty to their children and what actions or words against their own kids should be considered as sins or wrong.
Because in a country like India, people really needed to have atleast something resembling “word of dharma/bhagwan” to stop the very problematic behaviours parents have been doing with their children as long as time goes.
There's many good points of Indian parents which the west can adapt, but there are numerous bad points and practices that Indian parents do, which in my opinion should be criminalized by the government.
The extremeness of how brutally parents beat their children, or says the most vile of verbal insults. Or the actual lack of consent and privacy indian kids have in their own home especially during the teenage years, isn't funny.
Rather it is disturbing and shameful from the parents end. Yes, I partially blame centuries old social practices and scriptures for this. Because most Indian people are simply to dumb to come to the realisation that their behaviour harms their children more than it benifits them.
In my personal beliefs, it is somewhat true many Indian parents see their children as an extension of themselves or an investment rather than actual living breathing human being that has their own thoughts and decisions.
It pisses me off to think how little the government cares about a child's well-being at their own homes, that even if the child is stuck in the worst of worse abusive situation, still they have no proper way to escape their parents and be under protection.
The way we have laws for the stupidest of things in this country, but not a single law for the protection or security of children is something I don't see anybody talking about.
This might have been a rant making the topic sound dramatic. But the issue isn't overexaggerated, I've said the absolute truth that many people refuses to admit.
I think the only story we have in scriptures that is against child abuse is the story of Prahlad,but even in that story the common interpretation focuses more on the Bhakti aspect of it rather than the child abuse aspect.
