It's fucked that everyone wants to toss every "criminal" in jail and let them rot (some of them definitely have it coming, but that's beside the point of)
It's completely unhinged that people are happy to throw children into the "criminal" bucket and have the exact same fate. Like it should be an easy sell that perhaps some children would benefit from a full time residential facility that rehabilitates them (yes basically juvie, but actually functional at rehabilitating the kinds into functional adults by the time they're 18). If people could see that, it would hopefully not be too difficult to map that onto the adult "corrections" (let's rename it) system, but they can't see it in the first place
So many adults see children (including their own) as obstacles to “success” (access to resources) and they just want the bad elements excised. Cynicism sucks.
Oh yeah for sure, check out the book Childism on that score. Fucking brutal read.
Parents see their kids as that proverbial lump of clay that they can/should master and shape. Everyone else is misformed and can be disregarded. But I think the motivation has to do with success/outcomes. Parents own neurosis also come into play.
It's fucked that everyone wants to toss every "criminal" in jail and let them rot (some of them definitely have it coming, but that's beside the point of)
It's completely unhinged that people are happy to throw children into the "criminal" bucket and have the exact same fate. Like it should be an easy sell that perhaps some children would benefit from a full time residential facility that rehabilitates them (yes basically juvie, but actually functional at rehabilitating the kinds into functional adults by the time they're 18). If people could see that, it would hopefully not be too difficult to map that onto the adult "corrections" (let's rename it) system, but they can't see it in the first place
So many adults see children (including their own) as obstacles to “success” (access to resources) and they just want the bad elements excised. Cynicism sucks.
I think it's more that children are considered property. The rest still works out
Oh yeah for sure, check out the book Childism on that score. Fucking brutal read.
Parents see their kids as that proverbial lump of clay that they can/should master and shape. Everyone else is misformed and can be disregarded. But I think the motivation has to do with success/outcomes. Parents own neurosis also come into play.
I won't on account of i don't need to be more informed depressed but thank you
Lol I hear you on that. The Utah Philips song Kids Liberation is probably just as good and not a downer tbh.