Inspired by the current administration’s Children’s Crusade on Gun Control, my friend Ben Finiti has written an interesting and insightful essay on the abuse and non-use of children in public debate. Take a look.
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The Obama administration’s latest use of children as political props has, as usual, called forth much praise and very little outrage. We have become accustomed to such things. We hardly notice. And this latest is by no means the worst.
The irony is that while children are moved to the fore when useful as window dressing on issues to which they are peripheral, they are so often shoved off the stage when they are central to the issue.
EXAMPLE ONE: DIVORCE, also called dissolution of marriage. Marriage is an act of union between two adults, and so is its dissolution. As things now stand in America, children, if any, are collateral issues, like joint property. Their interests are to be addressed in working out the details, not in the basic decision to permit the dissolution.
[for the rest, click here. ]
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Hi great reading yourr post