People don't agree on much these days, in fact it often seems they go out of their way to disagree and engage in some sort of debate over whatever agenda they've chosen to be for the day. Odd wording perhaps, but in a culture where people can identify as an emoji and there's even people who will teach you how to use the right pronouns if you identify as a bowl of soup, you can certainly identify as an agenda, and sadly, people do.
I've always said that I don't have an agenda, but recently, I discovered I do. In fact I always have, and it's directly tied into why I've always had trouble, even more so since the world went balls-to-the-wall woke. To be real, the trouble started long before the current woke trend, my unique perspective and relentlessness with the truth were such an issue for me when I was younger, I was frequently slapped across my smart mouth, or some such.
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It wasn’t until 1974 that C.A.P.T.A, the Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act, required “mandated reporting” of child abuse. This meant that school teachers were finally allowed to report child abuse if they suspected it. Of course that didn’t mean they actually reported it, or that anyone else did. Bear in mind, prior to this act, reporting wasn’t frowned upon in schools, it was forbidden.
Much of what shaped the way people felt about child abuse back then sustains to this day. It's an understanding that “these sorts of things” only happen to poor, backward, rural or “slum” families. It's only children who are trouble-makers, like foster kids, orphans and poor kids that get abused, and that is as it should be, all is right with the world. |
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