"I am not saying children have a right to a Mother & Father, I am saying children have a right to their Mother & Father, to their own Mother & Father. Now if we don’t defend this from the perspective of the child’s right to their Mother & Father, if children don’t have a right to the two people responsible for their existence, what does it mean? It means they are commodities that can be cut & pasted into any and every adult relationship." ~ Katy Faust [Founder and Director of Them Before Us]
Basically parents are playing a game of Hunger Games or even worse Squid Game with their family! The only thing parents really have to do consistently is sleep with their children in the same house.
"You can either be a great career woman or a great mother. You cannot possibly be both." -Kevin Samuels
"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large par…
"Parents give up their rights when they drop their children off at public school." ~ Melinda Harmon, Federal Judge, 1996
“Children don’t like school because they are not free.” ~ Peter Gray
A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves. No rights means no values. Rights protect peoples values. Instead we deny many of the children’s rights that protect and build upon these values. There are approximately 75 million kids under 18 which is 23% of the entire popul…
Dr. Stacey Patton sums this up perfectly:
“Generations of scholars and activists have examined race, gender, class and sexuality as categories of oppression. They have not extended the same courtesy to the category of childhood, to the oppressions and sufferings of children. But the fact is you can’t reproduce any order of societal oppression based on race, gender, class or sexuality without first destroying each generation of young people as soon as they enter the world.” ~ Dr. Stacey Patton
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