Echoes of the Satanic panic / Sp!ked, 27 September 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/3894/
Heather Piper
"Are families being torn apart on the dubious basis that animal cruelty and child abuse are linked?
Does harming an animal suggest that you would harm a child? Many people wouldn’t think that one kind of behaviour would necessarily be linked to the other. Yet, it is claimed that agencies are now taking children away from their parents based on this very thinking, which appears to have become remarkably mainstream in academic and professional thought."