School and daycare closings are expressly prohibited in the future. This is a point from the new Infection Protection Act, which was passed on Thursday and Friday. It will particularly please those parents who found themselves locked in at home with their children during the previous lockdowns and felt at their mercy.
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The reports and stories about how annoying and stressful or simply horrific it was for them to keep the offspring busy all day in any way grew larger and larger, and were consumed and circulated with pleasure. So far, it doesn’t matter – or does the problem of latent child hostility already begin there?
With the devaluation of children in this country it is like with the confession to find mathematics stupid and have no idea about it: It is completely socially accepted, although in the end there is not much good to be seen in it. Which section of the population can be complained about as unabashedly as children? About none. You don’t need to call that group-related misanthropy, and yet it has traits.
As if for compensation purposes, there are eruptive actions, which can also lead to what is going on on the “Children’s Rights Day” that falls on this Saturday. In Germany, some well-known buildings are to be illuminated in blue, and child protection organizations are raising awareness that children’s rights are not only threatened in the form of child labor or hunger, but also in Germany.
Environmental protection is child protection
For example in environmental protection, where the Federal Constitutional Court has already made a groundbreaking decision. Environmental protection is child protection because the climate crisis threatens the existence of future generations. It is understandable that the many current climate protection measures are not marketed in this way: the reference to the children would not make the topic more important, but less important. For children? Well then it’s not that important.
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It can always be astonishing what disinterest in the following has established itself in this country. On a large scale, for example, it makes possible the unjustifiable and yet only worsening educational misery, and the way in which the needs of children and young people were only sparse in the corona debates.
Even on a small scale, traces of this ignorance can be found everywhere. Be it the lack of compulsory zebra crossings in front of schools and daycare centers, which express indifference to the special need for protection, or be it the terrible whimsy in the supermarkets that aims at children as easy prey for customers.
In order to deduce the rather unfriendly relationship with the child, one can fall back on the misanthropic ideology of the Nazi era. But that doesn’t fully explain why nothing really wants to change to this day.
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This applies not only to society, which likes to roll its eyes in grim unity over disturbing children, but also to politics – if you look, for example, at how nobody in Berlin now wants to reach for the school department because it is primarily associated with hardship, with lack of money, lack of buildings, lack of teachers, lack of everything.
Instead of the task of showing adolescents opportunities and ways of being able to influence them to a certain extent as the most valuable and worth striving for, the “fuss” label of subordination that Gerhard Schröder once put on it still sticks to this day.
Hillary Clinton excelled in 1995 as First Lady of the USA with the statement that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights. The same goes for children’s rights. It’s human rights. It is a shame, but anything but superfluous, that it takes special days for everyone to find their place and be heard.
