Janet Heimlich is the founder of the Child-Friendly Faith Project, and author of Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, both of which examine child abuse and neglect that is enabled by religious belief in the United States.
Janet is also a reporter who has worked for NPR and written for a variety of publications.
(Full disclosure, I'm on the advisory board for the Child-Friendly Faith Project.)
I spoke with her about the way children suffer at the hands of religion, whether teaching kids about Hell constitutes abuse, and what atheists can do to help.
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