A lot of childrearing that was normal from 50 years ago is currently considered child abuse. Did people 50 years ago consider childrearing from 100 years ago to be child abuse?
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The presenter's point: what are we doing today that will trigger our grandchildren? Carbon emissions? Tolerating insane income inequality?
So, for childrearing: denying infants screen time? Forcing them to join groups doing things they don't want to do?
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I agree they shift over time, but it's possible that a framework for considering something 'abuse' is new. And it's very probable that almost everything we're doing will be considered barbaric in the future.
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I agree, "abuse" could be a new framework, reflecting new views about authority (before, parental/clerical/etc. authority knew now bounds, hence un-abusable.)
But: I can see specific shifts, e.g. one-child per family in China has blown away the idea that children care
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for their elders in a single generation, since the burden that used to fall on three or four children would now fall on one (tip--invest in assisted living in China.)
But I find it hard to react to "very probable" that "almost everything" will be considered "barbaric"--