Childhood *is* a social construct in exactly the same way that race is a social construct - there are fuzzy boundaries around all biological categories The lie is that this means that "race" or "childhood" don't exist. Both exist as real things (with fuzzy borders)
Exactly - race is as real as childhood and the "race isn't real" argument is *exactly* the same as the "childhood isn't real" argument It's a switch in meaning of "socially constructed"