This makes me feel very uncomfortable

[chickenfeet]

I haven't fully thought this through but this story makes me very uncomfortable. If it is a criminal offence for a person not to shop his/her spouse (or presumably, a child his/her parents), how far away are we from the Stalin's Russia or Orwell's 1984. Does the individual's relationship to the state over-ride all other human ties?

ETA: Could this law be used against a priest who did not disclose what he learned in the Confessional? If not, why not?