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The United States of America is only one of two countries that has not approved and accepted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The other is South Sudan, which has already begun the ratification process.
Among other things, the CRC ensures children under the age of 18 have the right to life, identity and name, education, freedom of expression, equal opportunity, healthcare, psychological recovery, cultural sensitivities for minority/indigenous groups, and access to information [x].
The lack of the CRC in the USA is part of the reason why it is okay to send children to abusive “camps” that attack their identity as LGBTQ+ minorities, enroll them in private schools that intentionally deny students opportunities to learn about science (particularly anatomy and sexuality), and sign away their children’s rights to the state.
It is also why juveniles in the USA can be sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, a legal implications that particularly affects people of color, especially Black and Latinx children.
The CRC also specifies that children should not be disciplined in a manner that is considered abusive, and the USA therefore does not regulate the “discipline” occurring in homes of at-risk children, even when it qualifies as mental or emotional abuse.
Due to the lack of the CRC, children can be relocated against their will (eg, deportation/trafficking) to potentially dangerous and life-threatening places, can be separated from their parents, or can be kept in isolation.
Basically, the United States, which claims to be a great champion of human rights, has consistently refused to ratify or even introduce the bill to ratify the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Update on this (2016): USA is now the only country not to ratify the CRC. [x]
Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty. [x]
The US is one of two “developed” country with the lowest standards for child well-being (Romania is the other). [x]
16 million kids live in poverty and 138 thousand kids are homeless (2013-2015). [x]
Homelessness in children has increased by 60% in the past 6 years. [x]
In 2001, 325,000 children were at risk for becoming victims of sexual exploitation in the United States. [x]
Of all sex trafficking victims in the USA: 17% are underage girls and 10% are underage boys. [x]
this is horrifying because I’m a US citizen and I didn’t even know the CRC existed?? I thought the way children are treated under the legal system here was completely normal and standard??? literally until I read this I had no conception of anything different and now I’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that in other places it wouldn’t be allowed for my classmates to be beaten by their parents or shipped off to be made straight
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The fundamentalist homeschooling lobby HSLDA has a lot to do with this.
It’s so frustrating. It’s all about “parents’ rights” and kids pretty much being the literal property of their parents for the parents to do whatever they want with.
Very similar with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for that matter. A lot of the opposition to ratification in the US has come straight from the evangelical homeschooling movement. Beyond the usual terrors of the UN, “We believe the CRPD would threaten homeschooling and parental rights.”
Hint: if you think your approach to education might be considered a violation of kids’ human rights, maybe you should reconsider what you’re doing.
If you consider your “parental rights” more important than the well being of children, you aren’t thinking as a parent, you’re
thinking as
the owner of a small human. You don’t want to give up your ownership.
^^^
I just-I gotta say this. My mom homeschooled me after 7th grade because the public school system absolutely loves to blame people (like me) for their own bullying. I was being harassed on a daily basis, then told it was my fault for “causing a scene.”
If someone had decided that because I’m autistic, I need to be in public or private school, and forbidden me from being homeschooled, I don’t know what I would have done. All I ever learned among my peers in school was how to be a nice little punching bag.
Say what you will about parents choosing to homeschool, I can’t speak for all of you as I don’t know what you’ve experienced, but I know that being taken out of the classroom environment did my autistic backside a lot of good.
Communism wouldn’t work. (Not saying capitalism is good, mind you.)
Yeah, I’m back to that idea. First off, communism on its own would probably end up with a totalitarian government, because humans are fickle creatures who would probably be corrupted by the power. Because if I understand correctly, there is only one ruling group. Also, power corrupts. I’m sorry, but there would be NOTHING, absolutely fucking NOTHING preventing the group in power from taking it all for themselves, or at least, more for themselves. Russia, for example. Bolsheviks. Any group in history has needed a leader. Even if they worked together, someone initiated it, thus being a leader.
And anarchist communism, that’s a whole new thing. How would anarchism work large scale? Without an authority, it wouldn’t! And it wouldn’t be anarchism at that point, would it? No. Smaller groups tend to deteriorate without a leader, or need a leader for them to work. I legitimately don’t see how it would work, without becoming a hive mind with very little individual thought. At least in capitalism, there is room for free thought. You can live without being at the top of the capitalist pyramid. Sure, the people at the top are corrupt, but guess why? They have power! Money=power!
Personally, I think capitalism can become more fair. Capitalism itself has absolutely nothing to do with a corruption of those in power. Capitalism is, and I quote from the Google result, “an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.” Where does it say the owners of the business have to care nothing for their consumers/workers? Nowhere? Exactly! Of course it means that now. I’m not a moron, capitalism is corrupt, but there’s nothing inherently corrupt about what capitalism is by definition. It may lead to that, though. Big corporations are definitely corrupt. Small businesses, however, have a smaller percentage of that happening. Yet, they’re still in a capitalist system, are they not?
Also, where is the competition for more customers/better products in communism? Monopolies are illegal for that exact reason. If everything is controlled by everyone, or by a central power, where is the need for better products? Where is the competition? To an extent, of course, competition is bad, but you can’t tell me competition hasn’t caused a lot of new innovations. Patents also lead to innovations.
Quite honestly, until someone can tell me how communism would work large scale, how you would prevent power from corrupting, and basically, in excruciating detail, how it would work, I’m going to have to oppose it. I oppose capitalism, too, but at least I understand how it functions and prevents bad shit from going down in countries that use it.
(Oh, and also, if you can show me a country that has communism and didn’t fail to get there and end up with a totalitarian government, I’d be happy to listen.)
(I also just don’t really like communism as an idea, to be frank. It seems to close to becoming a dystopia for my taste.)
Anarcho communism is cool and stuff but you do realize that human nature wouldn’t allow for it to work, right? Humans are selfish. They will try to take power.
Do you realize that the argument of “selfish human nature” is crap?
If that were true we would never have survived as a specie. Caveman would have never shared fire, food, knowledge and so on.
Selfish as a species, then. Look at how little concern (capitalism at least) has for other species.
Also, if you read all my other reblogs of this post, you’d see that I had backed off that argument and that I’m now trying to fully understand how it would work.
“Capitalists” are the ones who donnot care about other species. Capitalism is just a theory.
Honestly didnt read all other reblogs. If you are interested in learning how would it work investigate about EZLN, paris comune, anrchism in spain and some other things i can remember.
And Please stay away from “anarcocapitalism” thta shit is not anarchism.
Exactly. Because they are selfish. Selfishness of businesses is why it’s so damn hard to get them to give one fuck about the environment.
How is capitalism a theory if it is a common form of government?
It would be a good bit ridiculous to expect you to read all those walls of text, honestly.
I am definitely trying and will look into those.
Trust me, I just read something about it, I have no interest in it as a concept at all. It’s an oxymoron to be frank and quite honest.
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