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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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
(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 @rainaftersnopls and
You don't think becoming a parent counts as pursuing such a profession?
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Of course I'm suspicious of people who seek out professions where they have positions of power over children THAT'S WHY I'M SUSPICIOUS OF PARENTS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
I'm EXTRA suspicious of parents because, out of all the professions where you have power over children, "parent" is the one with the MOST power and the least accountability
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