The issue is not even child abuse, which this undoubtedly is.
It is that they have created systems where they pay no price for being wrong, and other people do. If they do scummy things like this, it is not their own gene pool that suffers, but yours. You can spend 9 months giving birth, then 11 years of time, money and effort in raising a kid, only for that kid to be destroyed.
Just like when teachers decided that children needed 'death education', and this led to suicides among other people's kids. Remember that? I'd never heard of it and only learned about it in an old Sowell book.
Just like when teachers decided that children needed 'death education', and this led to suicides among other people's kids. Remember that? I'd never heard of it and only learned about it in an old Sowell book.
I've never heard of this. Could you explain it briefly?
This is from one of the few Sowell books that I have read only once (Inside American Education), so my recollection may not be great, and take the following with a grain of salt.
Basically, in the early 1990s, due to the great success of sex education in raising the teenage pregnancy and STD rate, teachers decided that children had to get 'death education', because how could they deal with death without the aid of teachers 'educating' them about it.
So they unleashed 'death education' on children. They showed them with videos that were supposed to teach them how to deal with death, and had visits to graveyards and basically weird stuff. Despite evidence that this was greatly disturbing to the children, and despite suicides from children who could ironically could not deal with this 'death education'.
Afterwards, it was never heard of again. The fad passed just as quickly as it had arrived, with families of dead children left to pick up the pieces. As usual, they paid no price for being wrong, other people suffered for their mistakes. And it's wiped from the historical record, so they don't even have to pay the reputational price for it.
The issue is not even child abuse, which this undoubtedly is.
It is that they have created systems where they pay no price for being wrong, and other people do. If they do scummy things like this, it is not their own gene pool that suffers, but yours. You can spend 9 months giving birth, then 11 years of time, money and effort in raising a kid, only for that kid to be destroyed.
Just like when teachers decided that children needed 'death education', and this led to suicides among other people's kids. Remember that? I'd never heard of it and only learned about it in an old Sowell book.
I've never heard of this. Could you explain it briefly?
This is from one of the few Sowell books that I have read only once (Inside American Education), so my recollection may not be great, and take the following with a grain of salt.
Basically, in the early 1990s, due to the great success of sex education in raising the teenage pregnancy and STD rate, teachers decided that children had to get 'death education', because how could they deal with death without the aid of teachers 'educating' them about it.
So they unleashed 'death education' on children. They showed them with videos that were supposed to teach them how to deal with death, and had visits to graveyards and basically weird stuff. Despite evidence that this was greatly disturbing to the children, and despite suicides from children who could ironically could not deal with this 'death education'.
Afterwards, it was never heard of again. The fad passed just as quickly as it had arrived, with families of dead children left to pick up the pieces. As usual, they paid no price for being wrong, other people suffered for their mistakes. And it's wiped from the historical record, so they don't even have to pay the reputational price for it.
It showed up in some of my highschool textbooks. My favorite was a questions, "how can a suicide hotline help you with suicide?"
I made an entire sketch about it.