I think my opinion is probably skewed because of 12 years as a social worker in Oakland and then 2+ decades teaching public school. There are quite young children who are sexually exploited, forced to witness domestic violence, neglected by drug- and alcohol-addled adults…
We don’t have Dickens-like workhouses for six-year olds in this co…
I think my opinion is probably skewed because of 12 years as a social worker in Oakland and then 2+ decades teaching public school. There are quite young children who are sexually exploited, forced to witness domestic violence, neglected by drug- and alcohol-addled adults…
We don’t have Dickens-like workhouses for six-year olds in this country, and minors are no longer subject to capital punishment, but the conditions of childhood can still be pretty nightmarish. And it feels sometimes like our institutions are half-hearted in their safeguarding efforts.
It's peculiar but the existence of such children is sad in part precisely because we expect childhood to be a trouble-free eden; the contract between expectation and what happens to some is jarring and troublesome.
I think my opinion is probably skewed because of 12 years as a social worker in Oakland and then 2+ decades teaching public school. There are quite young children who are sexually exploited, forced to witness domestic violence, neglected by drug- and alcohol-addled adults…
We don’t have Dickens-like workhouses for six-year olds in this country, and minors are no longer subject to capital punishment, but the conditions of childhood can still be pretty nightmarish. And it feels sometimes like our institutions are half-hearted in their safeguarding efforts.
It's peculiar but the existence of such children is sad in part precisely because we expect childhood to be a trouble-free eden; the contract between expectation and what happens to some is jarring and troublesome.