We’re Losing the Children
Written By Thomas Hampson | 04.09.24
What are we doing to our children? Today, children are told—starting at 3 or 4 years old—that we don’t really know if they are a boy or a girl. The doctor just guessed based on their appearance when they were born. Over the next few years, they are told, it is up to the child to discover if they are a boy, a girl, non-binary, fluid, or something else altogether.
Seventy years ago, it was a lot easier being a kid than it seems to be today. Seventy years ago, I knew I was a boy. Nobody told me that I might not be and that I would have to discover what I was.
The changes over the last seventy years have led to vastly increased confusion, anxiety, insecurity, and depression among children. Add the negative impact social media has had, it is easy to see why children are suffering.
Because of their emotional condition, children today are more vulnerable than ever.
Now we’ve also added sex to the mix of burdens piled on our children.
In 2011 the International Planned Parenthood Federation published “Exclaim! Young Peoples Guide to Sexual Rights: an IPPF Declaration.” Here’s an excerpt:
“Everyone is entitled to human rights simply for being human. Human rights cannot be taken away or given up from anyone, irrespective of their age, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability, HIV status or health status. . .
“[I]t is important to recognize that sexual rights are . . . equally important human rights for everyone, including young people.”
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