If the human rights codified in international law for children are actually abided by and followed by parents then it fundamentally undermines the power of the state to repress marginalized populations and uphold and replicate oppressive dynamics when well treated children become politically active and go on to have children of their own.
Subsequently there is a great deal of incentive to present those same rights as unreasonable, outlandish, and something that only those who are naive or worthy of mockery could think of. Rather than the agreed upon baseline for bare minimum human decency.
Children are not property. They are not the second chance for a parent to live again, they are not consequence free sources of the rush of control for a parent who lacks agency in other parts of their life.
They do not ask to be born, they are dependent on care and support from their families and communities. Treating the rights of children as worthy of mockery is directly perpetuating the power structures that lead to life stories like mine and countless others.
I don't care if someone doesn't Like Children, I don't care if they claim to LOVE kids. I care about how the kids are actually, meaningfully treated.
I care about children and teenagers being regarded as full human beings capable of expressing their wants and needs, and that they be given the tools to do this regardless of what challenges they may have with expression and communication.
How often is it in progressive circles that people regularly post "the kids are alright" as a responsibility sloughing gesture in response to a demonstration that no, actually, they extremely are not? I do not understand how it does not prompt horror that this is often the first response to things like children needing to organize themselves in the school room to keep each other safe from dangerous adults, or to take challenges to international courts to argue that they deserve clean air to breathe.
The kids are NOT alright in many places around the world, and they are not alright because they are being abandoned and failed by the adults around them. Including those who keenly remember how miserable their own childhoods and teen years were, but don't apply any compassion back down the chain.
Nobody is free until everyone is free includes kids.
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