Children's Rights - Tumblr Posts

Do children have rights? Of course! What a strange and unfair world it would be if a whole class of people, more tender and helpless than any other, had no rights to protect them until they are grown and able to take care of themselves.

Do parents have rights? Of course! What a strange and unfair world it would be if a whole class of people, laden with the heaviest responsibility and the heaviest fears to go along with them, had no rights to make them somewhat free of those fears and reward those responsibilities.

The best way to limit rights that appear to infringe on the rights of others is to define duties alongside those rights. One should speak of the rights and duties of parents, the rights and duties of children. Then everything will get into perspective and proportion.

Still, there is no systemic substitute for love.

In America 38 states or less child marriage is still legal in fact around 3,000 children get married off in America every year.

came across this post https://www.tumblr.com/bethanydelleman/744299906886434816?source=share and I was literally shocked bc arranged marriages and I sat there SHOCKED

arranged marriages aren't. . .good??? and women were treated like cattle???? like sure they had "power" but they didn't have POWER. and how they act like it's an "over done trope"

My favorite one (sarcasm) is this one bc hello???? you grandmother was sold off bc of a possible inneracaial romance and you're just "aLwAyS tHiNkInG AbOuT YoU GrAndMa" lol fuck yourself fr i am SO serious.

“Hey guys why does every story treat this hallmark of female oppression as a bad thing???? It’s not very girl boss of these women to be sad because they are going to be repeatedly raped and forced to bear children for the rest of their lives🥺”

How tumblr morons want arranged marriages to be portrayed:

Also the literal pedophilia apologist shit in the tags 😭 I hate tumblr bro:

"we want to protect the kids!!"

— in a way that will also protect them from their parents & guardians right?

"what"

— if a parent or guardian wanted to abuse their child, would what you're trying to do make it harder for them?

"..."

— *pulls out a chart that shows 76% of abused children were victimized by a parent or legal guardian* will what you're advocating for make it easier for the majority child abusers, which is overwhelmingly parents & guardians, to get away with abuse?

"idk what this has to do with anything we just want to restrict children's freedoms more & give parents more control over them. you know. to protect them from adults who want to abuse them"

Every. Single. Time.

I think women and children’s rights to like be full members of modern society without being bombarded w constant imagery of sexual violence against women is more important than porn stars ability to advertise on social media websites

They abolished slavery (well, even that is debatable), and yet about 2.4G people (UNICEF 2023) do not have any rights to self-determination and are completely at the mercy of one or two guardians just for the crime of being under 18. There's a certain logic to it, of course, kids are stupid and are usually unable to fully understand the impact of their decisions or provide for themselves, so they need a caretaker. Sometimes it is necessary to submit to authority in order for society to function as intended, that's also why we have states, for example.

However, we also acknowledge that anyone placed in a position of authority must be able to be questioned and replaced, and that regulations should be kept to a minimum. We have elections to replace politicians (however ineffective at ensuring democracy they may be), the abusive nature of private ownership and wage labour is only seen as justified by the mainstream because you freely enter contracts and can exit them (although when the alternative is living on the street, your actual freedom is dubious at best), and people would go crazy if the state mandated a curfew without a very good reason. For the disabled, which are the closest group to children, we give the person as much autonomy as possible and only refer to the guardian where strictly necessary. Even child adoption is a years-long, arduous process with absurdly harsh requirements. Somehow, this all goes out of the window whenever the administered is a child and the administrator is their parent. The parent gets the final say in any- and everything the child does, irrespective of the child's being 2, 9, or 17 years of age. Even when an older sibling is removed from the parent's custody for horrific acts of abuse (which is extremely rare compared to the prevalence of domestic violence), even when such parent is a repeat offender, so-called "parent's rights" keep the next victim at the mercy of their soon-to-be abuser. Children have no rights and only the barest of protections.

From another point of view, other positions comparable to parenthood, such as teachers, managers, cops, or politicians, are all remunerated. Parents, on the other hand, only get meager subsidies that might barely cover the child's food and housing, let alone their clothes, school supplies, and leisure. In America, mothers even have to pay to give birth (while not being allowed abortion). Daycares are paid for in most of the world. tl;dr: positions of authority are responsibilities, not rights ∧ parenthood is a position of authority ⇒ parenthood is a responsibility, not a right also parenthood should be remunerated

there was backlash from homeschooling "parents rights" advocates in my area before because of a daycare teaching kids about consent...all they learned is that you don't have to accept unwanted physical intimacy. one scenario that happened is a parent told her toddler boy to kiss a toddler girl in class. toddler boy comes back and says that toddler girl didn't want a kiss. it turns out the kids were taught that you don't touch someone if they say "no". parents thought this was ridiculous. I felt crazy hearing them talk about it, why in the world would you be upset by kids respecting each others boundaries, and why are you asking your toddlers to kiss each other in the first place as if they're toys and not human beings?

Listen maybe I'm projecting or maybe I'm right but it would be perfectly inline with Hobie Brown's character for him to be vehemently against corporal punishment. He's a critical thinker who has seen the decades of research, and in no world would he be okay with people in positions of power beating vulnerable people into submission. He'll call you out, too, and will physically intervene if he thinks it's necessary. No one lays hands on children in front of Big Brother Hobie.