Month: June 2008
A Ripple in a Pond?
A UK think-tank today issued a report (‘Licensed to Hug’) which states that “the dramatic escalation of child protection measures has succeeded in poisoning the relationship between the generations and creating an atmosphere of suspicion that actually increases the risks to children”. See http://www.civitas.org.uk/blog/2008/06/licensed_to_hug.html for the full story. Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the […]
IYAC: Disingenuous “Children’s Rights”
“OK, kids. We’ll listen to you, as long as you say what we want to hear”. If ever there was confirmation that the club-wielding ogre known as the Child-Protection Movement has completed its brutally effective hijacking of the Children’s-Rights Bandwagon, this has to be it. Now watch me as I drown in my own sarcasm. […]
Semantics: seeing I to I, or not?
Many people have differing opinions and regurgitated definitions of what certain words mean. I respect personal opinions whether I agree with them or not, but I make a *”so-so”/”really?”* looking face when somebody digs up a dictionary or DSM definition of word. Specifically, I am talking about the words pedophile, boylover, and child molester. New […]