Are children a marginalized group?

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There's been a common theme swirling throughout the culture wars: from gun policy, to drag bans, to talking about race - the innocence of children is always at the center of discussion.

This week, we're exploring the ideas and systems around childhood. We learn why we first drew the line between child and adult, why the line is so jagged and what implications this has on our lives today. We hear from a few kids themselves, then host Brittany Luse is joined by historian Jules Gill-Peterson and author Sophie Lewis. Last, Brittany chats with children's therapist Gerri Cadet Mareus about cultivating kids' autonomy by turning conflicts at home into opportunities to work together.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:06.3	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:08.0	And a warning to listeners, this episode contains brief mentions of child abuse and childhood
0:12.8	trauma.
0:15.0	I am getting to a point in my life where I'm starting to consider becoming a parent.
0:20.1	But lately, it seems like the lives of children and how we raise them have become increasingly
0:26.1	fraught.
0:27.5	Every culture war being fought in the U.S.
0:30.0	Gun control, how we talk about racism, the rights of LGBTQ people is often framed as a power
0:36.8	struggle over children.
0:39.4	Due to liberals pushing their woke agenda on our kids, school boards have become ground
0:43.4	zero for some of America's most contested issues, mask mandates, critical race theory,
0:48.8	pronoun insanity.
0:49.8	And extremists are imposing their beliefs on all students and parents through library
0:54.7	book bans, bands on certain subjects in the public school curricula and censorship of
0:59.6	educators all to the dead.
1:01.3	And a few kids we talk to have thoughts about this.
1:04.6	That makes me mad.
1:05.6	It makes me really mad.
1:06.6	I think it's ridiculous.
1:07.7	I think it's not fair that the generation that's yet to come, you're taking away parts
1:13.7	of history or you're censoring things just because you don't agree with them.
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