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CANTERBURY, England, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Britain's archbishop of Canterbury says children are being forced to grow up too quickly and become independent.
Relentless testing in schools and a bombardment of often highly sexualized advertising "make childhood a brief and rather regrettable stage," Archbishop Rowan Williams said in a Christmas Day sermon at Canterbury Cathedral.
Children are being rushed to become independent rather than having their dependence on others "celebrated and safeguarded," he said.
"We shall do all we can to ... turn you into a useful cog in the social machine that won't need too much maintenance," Williams sarcastically said Friday.
Williams also addressed the suffering of children forced to become soldiers in "meaningless and savage civil wars" in the Congo, Sri Lanka and other countries involved in conflict, The Times of London reported Saturday.
Children in those conflicts often are "abducted, brutalized, turned into killers, used as sex slaves," he said in a story reported in The Daily Telegraph.
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