I feel like the people who have these maximalist positions on the emancipation of children have never like...met one.
"A child should be able to emancipate themselves from their parents instantaneously and irrevocably at any time for any or no reason"
So you DO then understand that every child ever born would end up in foster care at around the age of 3 when their parents insisted that they...
Wear shoes before going outside
Not run directly into the path of an oncoming truck.
Learn ANY subject that is not directly relevant to their immediate interest. (Kids would not learn to read in order to learn about trucks or dinosaurs, especially not in the tiktok era. Goes triple for STEM subjects)
This most often comes from people whose "experience" with children maxes out at having BEEN one. And is directly countered by...ANYONE with education in childhood education, pedagogy, childcare or child welfare.
I am SORRY that you were abused by your parents, but the reason human beings even RAISE our children, evolutionary and socially speaking is because every. Single. Human child develops an ability to hurt themselves or others MUCH faster than they develop an ability to understand the consequences of their actions.
Now making emancipation of OLDER children and teenagers easier, making authorities and systems that are more likely to listen to evidence and reports coming from a child directly I full agree with. CPS is left toothless in the vast majority of situations when they really shouldn't be.
But going for the all or nothing position ignores one truth anyone who has ever been AROUND a child knows.
Children DO NOT know what is good for them and are ENTIRELY uninterested in listening to reason in ANY scenario.
Signed, an actual teacher.
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