When my first was 9mo we had the opportunity to travel to Japan. There were children’s seats in the family bathrooms and high chairs at cafeterias… and we were seen and cared for as a family. On trips to Europe there are family train cars with play areas. These eye opening experiences cracked open the door of my imagination to what a care/family centered culture could be.
Our society so dehumanizes children that it kills them by the millions. Denying that they are people or even alive. 25% of Gen-Z were aborted. Half of their own pregnancies end in abortion. The world is so broken.
The most radical social justice position going around is that we should stop having children entirely, that we would be doing them and the world a favor by extinguishing ourselves from the planet. Obviously this is against nature (the very thing they're claiming to protect), but it's also distructive to the people currently living. Children may be the most hopeful creatures we have access too. Mortality is definite; children provide us with a vision for a future beyond our death. We have to start envisioning a positive future for them, and we have to start making it.
Your title is true in so many ways. Demeaning language directed towards children says much more about who is using it than it could ever say about the children themselves.
This is maybe one of my favorites so far. I really enjoyed the audio as well 🥰🫶🏻 thanks for taking the time to write about things that are so important
Without addressing underlying incentives and needs you are swimming upstream, and we have little *need* for children the way we've setup Western society. This, as you note, is reflected in our collective attitude. It's depressing, and may spell our doom, but how does being more reverent towards kids solve it? Does it manifest need ex nihilo?
When my first was 9mo we had the opportunity to travel to Japan. There were children’s seats in the family bathrooms and high chairs at cafeterias… and we were seen and cared for as a family. On trips to Europe there are family train cars with play areas. These eye opening experiences cracked open the door of my imagination to what a care/family centered culture could be.
Our society so dehumanizes children that it kills them by the millions. Denying that they are people or even alive. 25% of Gen-Z were aborted. Half of their own pregnancies end in abortion. The world is so broken.
The most radical social justice position going around is that we should stop having children entirely, that we would be doing them and the world a favor by extinguishing ourselves from the planet. Obviously this is against nature (the very thing they're claiming to protect), but it's also distructive to the people currently living. Children may be the most hopeful creatures we have access too. Mortality is definite; children provide us with a vision for a future beyond our death. We have to start envisioning a positive future for them, and we have to start making it.
Sheer nihilism.
Your title is true in so many ways. Demeaning language directed towards children says much more about who is using it than it could ever say about the children themselves.
This is maybe one of my favorites so far. I really enjoyed the audio as well 🥰🫶🏻 thanks for taking the time to write about things that are so important
Thanks. I feel like I struggled with the audio here actually. Very tired while recording.
Aww, I’m sorry you were tired. Thank you for doing the recording . It added a lot of passion to it for me 🥰
Without addressing underlying incentives and needs you are swimming upstream, and we have little *need* for children the way we've setup Western society. This, as you note, is reflected in our collective attitude. It's depressing, and may spell our doom, but how does being more reverent towards kids solve it? Does it manifest need ex nihilo?
Well said! We could learn a lot from nature… Thanks for turning our hearts towards its lessons!