And how do you propose you construct some sort of perfect balance of authority in which a child doesn't develop a particularly strong emotional attachment of trust to a given authority in this system of yours?
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @rainaftersnopls and
I don't really aspire to perfection, I just hope to give kids a choice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rainaftersnopls and
So you don't really have an answer. The only way people can think like you is if they had terrible childhoods and don't understand the emotional attachment between child and parent/guardian etc.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @arthur_affect and
My childhood was great and I studied early childhood psychology in college and Arthur is correct here. The emotional attachments between parents and kids are a huge reason parental power needs to be more regulated.
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Replying to @rainaftersnopls @arthur_affect and
Yes you can state whatever you want as some sort of objective truth, but that is so besides the point. People will still grow to love the kids in their care and vice versa even in some nebulous community-oriented system.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @arthur_affect and
Loving them isn't the issue, the increased chance for and intensity of trauma as a result of that attachment is.
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Replying to @rainaftersnopls @spqtemple02 and
Implying that giving a child more choices for secure attachment is a refutation of its worth doesn't make sense.
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Replying to @rainaftersnopls @arthur_affect and
Implying that child-care professionals in this bureaucracy are necessarily trustworthy is mind-boggling.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @rainaftersnopls and
I don't think ANYONE is implicitly, automatically trustworthy That's why I advocate giving children a choice of adults to trust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
This is what horrifies people and gets them to yell at me for being a pedophile or a pedophile defender "Who else would encourage kids to go looking for an adult to run away to from their parents when they're mad at them" ...because they DO trust parents implicitly
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(I have never advocated that the person be *me*, for the record, and would be very happy to never interact with a child again for the rest of my natural life)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rainaftersnopls and
I wasn't going to accuse you of that, but I do think you're a bit naive about the kind of people who would pursue whatever profession it is that gets them consistently close to these kids in a nurturing relationship.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @arthur_affect and
Lol yes "The only people who take any interest in a child other than their biological parents (or at least people who expressed commitment by paying a good sum of money for them) are probably pedophiles" That's not used to close off queer kids from resources or anything
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