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    %CHILD ABUSE OBJECT PERSON CONTROL POWER VICTIM 910426

     Child  abuse and  the  abuse  of  women  is rooted in
communal attitudes  which say it is o.k.  to use and abuse
objects  and   resources  which do not have the  power  to
object   to  being    treated   as   expendable   objects.
These   tragic attitudes are often coupled with  attitudes
which  encourage powerful  people to regard less  powerful
people  as  means which  may  be used and abused in trying
to  achieve  some goal which the powerful people regard as
important.

     It   is  important  for  each   society,     culture,
community, and coherent  group  of  people  to  develop  a
publicly articulated  understanding  of  the circumstances
in which  a  person's rights  to  object to other people's
behaviors   should  be defended  as basic rights.   It  is
important  for people  to know  what  kinds of  objections
are  legitimate,   and  what kinds  of objection  are  not
legitimate.   In the absence of  overt  communal agreement
upon explicit  articulations  of  such   rights,     it is
close   to impossible for  victims  to effectively  defend
themselves  or to help other victims  to defend themselves
against use and abuse.

     Each  community needs  to  defend  the  rights of its
children  to   adequate   food,     shelter,     clothing,
medical  care,  educational opportunities,  security,  and
affection.    Each  community   which  fails   to   defend
these  basic  rights disintegrates.

     No  community   can  defends  the  above   rights  of
children without extending the same rights to all females,
because  in  virtually all communities it is  the  females
who  bear the  greatest  responsibility for taking care of
children from conception through adolescence.

     Any community which sets its priorities in such a way
as t neglect   the  rights of children and females thereby
sets  the   stage  for  its  own  tragic   disintegration.
Such    disintegration      tragically      occurs      in
militaristic, authoritarian,   addictive,  fundamentalist,
moralistic, legalistic,   technocratic  and  paternalistic
societies.   Systems  of ideals and values which  fail  to
encourage   the  defense  of the rights  of  children  and
females   are   systems  which    tragically    lead    to
personal   and   communal disintegration.    Such  systems
do   not    merit   respect   or   uncritical     support;
regardless     of     how     tragically    sophisticated,
educated,      powerful  and   technically  competent  the
guardians of the system may be.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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