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Children Are Not Property The idea that underlies the right-wing campaign for “parents’ rights.” (BARF)
NYMAG ^ | 4/14/2023 | SARAH JONES
Posted on 4/14/2023, 5:35:07 PM by bitt
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the Book of Proverbs says. To certain right-wing Christians, the concept is simple: A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. Though all parents hope they’ll pass their values onto their children, for some that hope is more of a mandate. My own parents believe that Proverbs is the word of God, and they believed, too, that a righteous upbringing would produce an adult in their image. Who can blame them? The idea that a child should replicate her parents does not belong only to conservative Christianity or to religion at all. A proverb is common wisdom, and lately this one is hard to escape. Authoritarianism is gospel to modern conservatives. Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.
Your child is OF you and FROM you. That’s different than property.
As always they accuse their enemies of exactly what they are guilty of... that is because they are incapable of looking beyond themselves! Like all sociopaths, they think everyone thinks just like they do. . . . Who actually 'assaults' the children?