course opens up another huge topic since there's nothing that is more common in the modern family than strairs forms of cohearsive emotional pressure to get to a top college, to date people in the so-called right religion or race, to wear appropriate clothes to be use a career, to take a shower, and so on and so on. i should say that my own father, who was a racist from the deep south, while we were living in philadelphia told me he would disinherit me and not pay for my public education if i appeared in a group that had a african-american. it was pressure. there's a lot of that. where should government and law step? certainly it should step in where physical and or sexual abuse is going on. which is very often. then it's much tougher to talk about the emotional coerce. and i actually think that as bad as my father's practices were it probably wouldn't have been right to remove custody or do something else like that. where religious mandates are concerned intervention would be justified where the behavior either institutes a gross risk to bodily health and safety. or impayers some major bodily