A human interest story at the center of the world's attention in early June 2016 concerns the seven-year-old Japanese boy Yamato Tanooka, the misdirected discipline by his parents which resulted in the child spending nearly a week alone lost in the woods, and the eventual discovery of the child, bruised but “genki” (healthy). The CBS news coverage, which is quite typical of American coverage, starts with a repetition of the bare facts known at this time, then opens up to speculation about the State's role in this kind of provocative case. Did the parents do the right thing? What is the right thing? And what should the State do for this child and to the parents? The bare facts known to the public at this time are that young Yamato on some occasions brazenly threw stones. His parents thought he should be broken of this habit. He resisted their earlier (unspecified) attempts at discipline. Raising their discipline a notch, the parents packed Yamato in the...(Read Full Article)