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11/29/2004
"Child Savers"
In almost every class I had with Professor Margo Melli in law school, she derisively referred to "the ChildSavers" as deluded do gooders. She was ferocious in her advocacy of parental rights over the rights of children to grow without abuse. She would actually snort over the idea of her children daring to sue her. Her contempt for children's rights law influenced a lot of lawyers for she is respected for her knowledge of family law. She was on all the Bar/law school family law committees and chaired most of them. She is an expert. Also. respect is a chicken and egg thing; she and her husband are wealthy and belong to the elite class. I got the help I needed from her so what can I say?
I was reminded of her view of children as property when I heard an NPR interview. The author wrote, "Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.". His name is Steven Mintz. In the book, he actually traces the achievements of the childsavers. It is really impressive.
I often thought silently as Melli derided such people in class that "child saver" was something they could put on my tombstone and I would be proud of it. Now I know that is the truth.
This book should be a must read for all the ditto heads that think that children are valued as sacred new life. I listen to them talk and it is all about the "rights" of the unborn child. The PREborn. The book exposes how much we value life once it turns from the fetus into the child.
Children are precious commodities in the world all right. Children are bred for their parents redemption, financial and emotional. Then in the U.S., all the rest of the people have to pay for it.
Over 1/2 of the slaves in the world are children - the other half are woman. We still breed those we can use, instead of becoming what we need. And we also breed, of course, out of a biological drive which is no longer beneficial. This is why abortion is good. Choice is good.
The most interesting thing in the book is about children "rescued" from the Indians. When children were captured by the Indians and raised by the tribe, their parents sometimes tried to ransom them back. Most children refused to return. When they were forced, they sobbed as they were being dragged away from the tribe. They said they lived a beautiful life in the tribe compared to what they came from in "white" society.
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