You are a social worker and you somehow become aware of the following situation:
A young child (let's say 12), is well-provided for economically and there is no family violence.
The father is a mathematical genius and he has high expectations for the child. He has heard from his colleague that they have given their kid a book of math problems to do at home in order to bolster their mathematical aptitude... so he decides to do the same. He brings home a giant (over 300 pages long) photocopied and binded-together book of math problems. He says to the child, "I expect you to do 10 pages every day and to get the answers right. If you have any questions about how to do some of the problems, figure it out, if you can't, come to me."
The child tries to do the problems. They are pre-SAT questions but they struggle massively; they don't have their father's mathematical genius or skill. They are also just... well... bored by the material. They want to spend their free time after school playing video games, drawing, enjoying movies and writing instead and they see this book as really just something they want to get over with. They try to approach their father a few times for help. The father questions the child's mathematical ability and intelligence and quite a few times, the child gets yelled at for not trying. Explanations are given but they don't stick.
Meanwhile, the kid found the answers to the questions in the middle of the booklet. They decide "you know what, I don't want to be belittled or shouted at and I hate doing this anyways" so they cheat and start writing out incorrect steps in the math problems miraculously leading to the answers; they get good at it so that at a glance (without close scrutiny), it looks related to the problem and it looks like they've applied themselves. The father wants to hear that they have done the 10 pages but he won't take the time to baby-sit you through the process and answers unless the kid annoys him with it. After a few days of cheating, the child realises the father is too distracted to care. He was never going to spend a few hours every day going over the answers in the math book anyways, he had more important things to do. This giant math book charade goes on for about 2 years (when one book is finished, a new one is assigned), then it's miraculously forgotten.
However, there are other issues. The father expects the child to get 90 percent or higher on all school subjects. If the child gets anything lower, they are told off very seriously that they need to apply themselves; if they get a number of less than 90s... even if it's in the 80s... they can expect this to escalate to yelling and the removal of household privileges. For school work, the child can go to the father for help but if they do, it's 50-50. They may get the impatient, angry, condescending mode or they might actually get some real help, the child NEVER knows which it will be.
There is not household violence.
In your capacity as a social worker, what's your official and off-the-record ruling on the situation? Is there any child abuse? Let's say for the sake of the thread, that you decide (based on your own values) what the definition of child abuse is. Please provide a justification and a rationale.
Your options:
Option 1: No. It's good parenting. Excellence is promoted.
Option 2: Officially I find that it's hasn't crossed into the line of child abuse, but it is extremely poor and damaging parenting.
Option 3: Officially, I find that it has crossed into the line of child abuse, and it is extremely poor and damaging parenting.
Option 4: Other (please explain)