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The nightmare of being a child.

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  Imagine tomorrow you wake up in a house you haven’t chosen, with two individuals who you haven’t chosen. They could be anybody. They could be the cruelest people you can imagine or they could be only slightly cruel. But they wouldn’t let you leave. They wouldn’t even let you choose what to wear, what to eat, how to dress, when to sleep, who you hang out, if you hang out. If you’d try to rebel to this treatment, you could get hit, or physically and emotionally harmed in other ways. They could send you to a corner, lock you into a room, sequester any small consolation you might have left from your former life, like a phone or a videogame (if they had been charitable enough to leave it to you). Everyday, you are sent into a sad, dull, grey building for six hours but unlike your former job, you can be insulted, demeaned, and screamed at openly for making any slight sound or interacting with other people in the room, who might or might not hate you and torment you as well. No one would
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All violence children experience is adult violence.

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By "adult violence", what is usually meant is violence perpetrated by adults, particularly against children in the context of child abuse and neglect. But almost every form of violence is adult violence. Adults aren't only the vast majority of perpetrators of all interpersonal violence (despite the moral panics they craft to justify hurting and restricting children even more), they're the only perpetrators of structural violence. Adults control the world, a world that children didn't contribute in creating and aren't permitted to contribute in changing. A world in which their voices don't count. Therefore children who experience the violence of capitalism, white supremacy and the carceral state are all victims of adult violence. Children who were historically victims of genocide were experiencing adult violence. Children who are victims of genocide now are experiencing adult violence. The transgender boy who tried to kill himself after Greg Abbott ordered
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Is there a place in feminism for girls who hate their mothers?

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Mothers are almost universally portrayed as benign. They're protectors, providers, nurturers. They're also a child's first oppressor but this has hardly been acknowledged. Indeed, it is considered outrageous to say it, but almost certainly she was the first person to ever hit us. Feminism has long decried the "demonization" of mothers and never examined maternal authority over children as a form of oppression. This is not surprising since contemporary feminism is entirely adult-centric, girls are nothing more than tokens, many adolescent girls campaigned for women's right to vote in the suffragette movement, they knew they still wouldn't be allowed to vote but they thought they owed that to the women they were going to become while adult feminists never campaigned for lowering the voting age to honor the girls they were - Smart, bright girls who found themselves at the interception of adultism and misogyny and branded by the state as incompetent. It's
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