drizzlydaybeforethespring:

for-abused-kids:

How to prevent abuse:

• Require new parents to sign up for classes that teach them the proper ways to take care of their children and show the effects of dangerous parenting
• Provide birth control for all genders and sexes, condoms for all genders and sexes and sexualities, and abortions free of charge
• Require sex-ed-like classes for 5th graders and 9th graders that teach them how to know if they’re in an abusive household, how to know if their friends are in an abusive situation, how to escape or keep themselves safe, and how to help another person in an abusive situation
• Teach teachers to recognize abuse victims
• Tax the rich and eliminate the wage gap
• Provide free therapy to victims of child abuse
• Provide free therapy to perpetrators of child abuse, including the ones who are imprisoned
• Reward children monetarily for succeeding in school so they have a willingness to learn and have less of a power imbalance with their parents
• Change the legal definition of abuse to include emotional abuse of all forms such as constant insults, hover parenting, neglecting or overprotecting children, and constant yelling and screaming
• Protect and enforce lgbtq rights and especially trans rights
• Protect and enforce poc rights

How not to prevent abuse:

• Get rid of participation trophies because children’s self worth doesn’t “build character”
• Talk about “jailbait”

And education needs to include non-typical types of abuse, like inducing paranoia, restraints abuse, endangering the kids’ health, choosing convenience over the kids’ needs, interpreting everything as a threat to the parent’s “dominance”, enforcing silly rules, projecting, reckless driving with other people in the car.

And what makes an actual legitimate apology vs not wanting to seem like a jerk.