The Concept Of Childhood Dissolves... in acid or in age/rape or college

I do not post a lot about Child Molestation in the various Churches because I want to offend, or destroy any of them.... Like in the past, the Catholic Church has reformed, and they are doing so now. They are, after all, the tip of an iceberg. Child sexual exploitation is rampant, with 300k counted as slaves being pimped here in the states last year. All religions will find pedophiles attracted to situations that give them a position of authority, or access to, children. If we skip back in time just a few hundred years, children were used for sex all the time, and 'childhood' as we know it existed only in a weak form, for the most privileged few (who were still often brutalized by our standards).






The Romantics put forth a lot of ideas about children, calling them special beings, and defining them as different than adults. Our western laws now reflect this. I fight the lack of childhood where ever I see it, because this is a cultural phenomena that goes away. And now, in this very, very complex world we live within, is too much for millions of adults, let alone children with limited real life experience.






In other countries, our child labor laws are not there at all... youngsters with tiny, nimble fingers live chained to looms until they grow too old... their hands are crippled forever by the experience, usually.