I grew up around people who were very active in "pro-life" activity. I was one of those little kids standing on the corner holding a sign with a bloody picture on it and saying with a lisp, "Pweese don't kill your bay-bee!" Our church was responsible for quite a few "rescues," and I have often wondered if we ended up doing those people favors.
Yeah. My mother did not wish to be married to my father or be pregnant with either myself or my younger sister or our thankfully miscarried potential younger sibling.
That was a fun discovery.
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I've suggested tying firearm purchase, voting, and consent age together. To stymie the folks who want to let 16 or 14 year olds vote. "Ok, but they'll also be free to act in porn or buy guns."
The latter might hold them off, but I'm not sure the former would, any longer.
Twitter just brings out the worst in humanity. Facebook and IG are bad, but Twitter takes the cake for narcissistic tendencies. They should put banners for CBT and DBT services.
When my parents got divorced I was 13 and I became privy to way too personal details of their lives and marriage.
Both parents old me separately how the other hadn't wanted children.
Now that I'm older, realizing these highly educated people would do things without thinking things through to logical conclusions(children, getting foreclosed on their house). Maybe it informed my financial decisions and how I view parenthood. I can be grateful in that respect
I'm sure lots of people tweeted they're glad she (Jill) didn't have children. And that it's pretty toxic to try to get people to expose something very damaged about themselves and possibly cause great harm to their children.
She needs to lose her phone for a month and get her mind right
The depth of human depravity is a bottomless well. Twitter and TikTok are today's carnival sideshow from hell. I have no room in my heart to find understanding or forgiveness of these monsters who are devoted to the mutilation and corruption of children. None. I would consign them to hell but sadly, I think hell was their birthing place and I wish these hideous people had been aborted.
Puberty suppression creates adults with children bodies legally capable of consenting to sex. Some "researchers" even argue in favour of life-long puberty suppression (see "Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults" article).
Our church, in a small town in Michigan, is full of large families of up to 6 children.
We only managed two, but each of them is committed to having 4 (grandkid #6 is due in January).
Of course, your experience of the Christian church is quite different – but I see family-friendly religious communities as the best hope for a decent future. All the more so since we reproduce and others don’t.
Holly, thank you for writing this and advocating for the protection of children. I am reminded of an article I read over a decade ago titled "How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool". The author argues that pedophilia was being de-stigmatized in elite circles during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church during the early 2000s caused a reversal of that trend. Unfortunately, memories are short and pedophilia is gaining its "cool" again. Thank you for fighting the good fight.
I grew up around people who were very active in "pro-life" activity. I was one of those little kids standing on the corner holding a sign with a bloody picture on it and saying with a lisp, "Pweese don't kill your bay-bee!" Our church was responsible for quite a few "rescues," and I have often wondered if we ended up doing those people favors.
Thank you.
I hope you are right.
Yeah. My mother did not wish to be married to my father or be pregnant with either myself or my younger sister or our thankfully miscarried potential younger sibling.
That was a fun discovery.
----
I've suggested tying firearm purchase, voting, and consent age together. To stymie the folks who want to let 16 or 14 year olds vote. "Ok, but they'll also be free to act in porn or buy guns."
The latter might hold them off, but I'm not sure the former would, any longer.
Sad but likely true.
Twitter just brings out the worst in humanity. Facebook and IG are bad, but Twitter takes the cake for narcissistic tendencies. They should put banners for CBT and DBT services.
When my parents got divorced I was 13 and I became privy to way too personal details of their lives and marriage.
Both parents old me separately how the other hadn't wanted children.
Now that I'm older, realizing these highly educated people would do things without thinking things through to logical conclusions(children, getting foreclosed on their house). Maybe it informed my financial decisions and how I view parenthood. I can be grateful in that respect
I'm sure lots of people tweeted they're glad she (Jill) didn't have children. And that it's pretty toxic to try to get people to expose something very damaged about themselves and possibly cause great harm to their children.
She needs to lose her phone for a month and get her mind right
Twitter is profoundly devastating to human virtues. To the point that I don't think the word "evil" is hyperbolic.
The depth of human depravity is a bottomless well. Twitter and TikTok are today's carnival sideshow from hell. I have no room in my heart to find understanding or forgiveness of these monsters who are devoted to the mutilation and corruption of children. None. I would consign them to hell but sadly, I think hell was their birthing place and I wish these hideous people had been aborted.
If only hell existed.
I think it does, if only here on Earth.
My therapist said this once. There is, and we make it for ourselves.
Puberty suppression creates adults with children bodies legally capable of consenting to sex. Some "researchers" even argue in favour of life-long puberty suppression (see "Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults" article).
Yep. That’s a part of this too.
Excellent article
Thank you.
Our church, in a small town in Michigan, is full of large families of up to 6 children.
We only managed two, but each of them is committed to having 4 (grandkid #6 is due in January).
Of course, your experience of the Christian church is quite different – but I see family-friendly religious communities as the best hope for a decent future. All the more so since we reproduce and others don’t.
Holly, thank you for writing this and advocating for the protection of children. I am reminded of an article I read over a decade ago titled "How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool". The author argues that pedophilia was being de-stigmatized in elite circles during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church during the early 2000s caused a reversal of that trend. Unfortunately, memories are short and pedophilia is gaining its "cool" again. Thank you for fighting the good fight.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/12/how-pedophilia-lost-its-cool