When it comes to violent crime, the typically unaddressed elephant in the room is: why are some men so ‘evil’?
I can’t help wondering how many instances there have been wherein long-term suffering by children might have been prevented had their parents received, as high school students, some crucial child development science education by way of mandatory curriculum.
Meantime, people continue procreating regardless of their inability to parent their children in a psychologically functional/healthy manner. And many seem to perceive thus treat human procreative ‘rights’ as though they [people] will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture their children’s naturally developing minds and needs.
Unfortunately, much of the Western world is governed within a virtual corp-ocracy. Yet, none of the highly corporatized mainstream news-media, very much including the neo-liberal New York Times and Washington Post, dare describe it as such, thus so very little of society realizes it.
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@frank sterle jr. [Continued] ... Furthermore, I've noticed over many years of Canadian news-media consumption that when victims of abuse/assault, sexual or otherwise, are girls their gender is readily reported as such; however, when they're boys, they're usually referred to gender-neutrally as children. It’s as though, as a news product made to sell the best, the child victims being female is somehow more shocking than if male. Also, I’ve heard and read news-media references to a 19-year-old female victim as a ‘girl’, while (in an unrelated case) a 17-year-old male perpetrator was described as a ‘man’.
Yes, female victims suffer immensely. But there remains a mentality out there, albeit perhaps subconsciously: Men can take care of themselves, and boys are basically little men. It is the mentality that might help explain why the book Childhood Disrupted was only able to include one man among its six interviewed adult subjects, there being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized men willing to formally tell his own story of childhood abuse. Could it be evidence of a continuing subtle societal take-it-like-a-man mindset? One in which so many men, even with anonymity, would prefer not to ‘complain’ to some stranger/author about his torturous childhood, as that is what ‘real men’ do? (I tried multiple times contacting the book's author via internet websites in regards to this unaddressed elephant-in-the-room matter but received no reply.) ....
@cat Sadly, due to the common-enough mindset Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard, the apparently prevailing collective attitude, however implicit or subconscious, basically follows (while perhaps typically unspoken): ‘Why should I care — I’m soundly raising my kid?’ or ‘What’s in it for me, the taxpayer, if I support child development programs for the sake of others’ bad parenting?’
@shauna020473 The wellbeing of all children — and not just what other parents’ children might/will cost us as future criminals or costly cases of government care, etcetera — needs to be of importance to us all, regardless of how well our own developing children are doing. A mentally sound future should be every child’s fundamental right (up there with air/water/food), especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.
It is difficult to not be angered by this! Trauma from unhindered toxic abuse, sexual or otherwise, typically results in the helpless child's brain improperly developing. If allowed to prolongedly continue, it can act as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammatory stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
After 34 years of news consumption, I've found that a disturbingly large number of categorized people, however precious their souls, can be considered thus treated as though disposable, even to an otherwise democratic nation. When they take note of this, tragically, they’re vulnerable to begin perceiving themselves as beings without value. I’ve observed this especially with indigenous-nation people living with substance abuse/addiction related to residential school trauma, including the indigenous children's unmarked graves in Canada.