Special education staff decimated after government shutdown firings: Sources

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Yes! Children are short changed and used as pawns...

All over the world regardless of the political affiliation of the people who are supposed to care for and about them.

They exist at the mercy of lots of ignorance with miniscule (if any) say-so in the matter.

They are the future and of course, this speaks volumes about how the regime feels about that.

The next Albert Einstein or another Heddy Lamar may have just lost their rights to a free and fair shot at their future. It's a lose-lose situation for all of us.

This book opened my eyes:

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192407/childism/
A seminal volume on prejudice against children for parents, teachers, psychologists, social workers, policy-makers—anyone concerned with the crucial subject of child welfare.

In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homophobia. This prejudice—“childism”—legitimates and rationalizes a broad continuum of acts that are not “in the best interests of children,” including the often violent extreme of child abuse and neglect. According to Young-Bruehl, reform is possible only if we acknowledge this prejudice in its basic forms and address the motives and cultural forces that drive it, rather than dwell on the various categories of abuse and punishment.

“There will always be individuals and societies that turn on their children," writes Young-Bruehl, “breaking the natural order Aristotle described two and a half millennia ago in his Nichomachean Ethics." In Childism, Young-Bruehl focuses especially on the ways in which Americans have departed from the child-supportive trends of the Great Society and of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Many years in the making, Childism draws upon a wide range of sources, from the literary and philosophical to the legal and psychoanalytic. Woven into this extraordinary volume are case studies that illuminate the profound importance of listening to the victims who have so much to tell us about the visible and invisible ways in which childism is expressed.

Thanks so much for being a great dad.

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