> Children are flexible and lack life experience. Small events leave large imprints on children.
> Older folks tend to get less flexible with age and have lots of life experience, so an understanding of what they do and do not enjoy
I believe Children are an opressed group, just like ethnic minorities were at a time. In my life I have personally witnessed dozens of children who were forced into careers and lifepaths based of false pre-conseptions that were formed by older people 40 years ago. The world has moved on, the older people responsible have declined in both mental facoulties and income, and the young people are stuck eith life choice that were made for them, their lives bent out of shape.
The media constantly treat young peolle with derision, mockery and disrespect. No political party represent interest of young people under 25. Their life opportunitues, social mobility and the chance to own a home are all declining. The age of lawmakers is climbing every year.
The disenfranchisement of young people in the west will be our downfall
> I believe Children are an opressed group, just like ethnic minorities were at a time.
That's very strong language but I can generally get behind the idea that children need some work on their rights in the West given the changes of the last 50-80 years in society. This is orthogonal to the above point that retirees are not children. Children are not retirees and their rights will reflect this truth. The rights and expectations of children will have to reflect what it means to be a child and likewise with retirees.
> In my life I have personally witnessed dozens of children who were forced into careers and lifepaths based of false pre-conseptions that were formed by older people 40 years ago. The world has moved on, the older people responsible have declined in both mental facoulties and income, and the young people are stuck eith life choice that were made for them, their lives bent out of shape.
This is heavily, heavily steeped in your own anecdata. I haven't witnessed children under any such parental force, but I've heard other people talk about this. They all had shared upper-middle class suburban upbringings with parents who were trying to force them into elite schools and elite careers. This personality is replete in American tech companies. If this is the background with which you bring this up, remember that this is hardly universal.
I grew up in an immigrant ghetto. Kids were left to do whatever they wanted as early as was feasible. The kids I knew roamed the streets, got into gangs, drugs, and all forms of unfulfilling sex. There were few jobs in the community and the kids had no direction. If anything the kids I witnessed suffered because their parents gave them no help; no parents to talk to the kids about hard conversations, nobody to help find jobs or careers, nobody to even teach the kids about how to modulate their own emotions, often saddled with the debt their parents placed on them through gambling or other poor decisions. The anecdata of my life would cause me to be impassioned about very different set of dangers for children. I saw more lives ruined through minor marijuana possession than through pushy parents.
> The media constantly treat young peolle with derision, mockery and disrespect. No political party represent interest of young people under 25. Their life opportunitues, social mobility and the chance to own a home are all declining. The age of lawmakers is climbing every year.
I haven't seen "derision, mockery, and disrespect". Political parties don't represent the interests of young people because they don't vote. It's pretty simple. Getting young people to vote is the hard part. The aging cohort of lawmakers is a separate, and yes deeply troubling, issue.
> The disenfranchisement of young people in the west will be our downfall
Wait until you realize what it's like to be young in Asia.
I think in both cases, children need to feel psychologically safe confiding mistakes in parents, and neither neglected (emotionally and educationally) and unsupported, nor receive conditional love and be punished when they fail to earn achievements to their parents' satisfaction.
> Older folks tend to get less flexible with age and have lots of life experience, so an understanding of what they do and do not enjoy
I believe Children are an opressed group, just like ethnic minorities were at a time. In my life I have personally witnessed dozens of children who were forced into careers and lifepaths based of false pre-conseptions that were formed by older people 40 years ago. The world has moved on, the older people responsible have declined in both mental facoulties and income, and the young people are stuck eith life choice that were made for them, their lives bent out of shape.
The media constantly treat young peolle with derision, mockery and disrespect. No political party represent interest of young people under 25. Their life opportunitues, social mobility and the chance to own a home are all declining. The age of lawmakers is climbing every year.
The disenfranchisement of young people in the west will be our downfall