Childhood’s temporary natural limits differ fundamentally from man-made oppression.

Evidence

Childhood is a particular sort of situation: it is a natural situation whose limits are not created by other men and which is thereby not comparable to a situation of oppression; it is a situation which is common to all men and which is temporary for all; therefore, it does not represent a limit which cuts off the individual from his possibilities, but, on the contrary, the moment of a development in which new possibilities are won. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 131

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the key distinction between childhood’s natural limits and the man-made limits of oppression — central to why ‘eternal child’ analogies fail.