Children's Rights
I'm starting to become convinced that our society is...like this because we don't view children as full people. They have no rights. They have no vote. They're forced to attend unsafe schools. They aren't able to make decisions about who they are as people. They aren't able to advocate for themselves and buy themselves respirators during a pandemic. They're completely dependent upon the adults in their lives, but the adults keep telling them "no, you're not who you say you are" "no, you don't deserve to feel safe from gun violence because adults deserve their machine guns" "no, you don't need these life saving vaccines that's MY decision as YOUR parent because I control you." If we treated children as full people and ensured every child had their needs met regardless of their parents job status or immigration status or any other arbitrary measure, we would have a completely different society. Y'all might think ...