Post-1989 ignorance about children’s own views on punishment is no longer a tenable excuse

Evidence

The claim “we didn’t know what children think” is no longer available. The research has been done. The views have been collected. The findings are consistent across cultures, methods, and ages. The children said: it hurts, it’s not fair, we don’t want it. That record is in the archive. What the political system does with it is the test of whether Article 12 means anything in practice. — , The Rod and the Child, 10134

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: on the ethical shift when a formerly excusable ignorance becomes a documented, archived record — the point at which ‘not knowing’ becomes evasion.
• XREF: connects to: Adult-centric debate about corporal punishment systematically omitted children’s own account — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9881; Pluralistic ignorance sustains corporal punishment norms, and shared visibility breaks them — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7389; Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9852 (+1 more)

Related

• Adult-centric debate about corporal punishment systematically omitted children’s own account (similarity 0.87)
• Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified (similarity 0.84)
• Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them (similarity 0.83)
• The harms of hitting children were invisible to traditional frameworks (similarity 0.83)
• Pluralistic ignorance sustains corporal punishment norms, and shared visibility breaks them (similarity 0.82)
• Children hit without understanding why are processing relational rupture, not learning a lesson. (similarity 0.80)
• Adult childhood memory is an unreliable substitute for asking children directly. (similarity 0.80)
• Legal change against corporal punishment cascades across generations rather than declining linearly (similarity 0.80)
• Children across fifteen countries universally report being hit as painful and unfair (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural normativeness does not reduce the harm of child corporal correction. (similarity 0.79)
• Children’s fairness objection to hitting arises from moral perception, not cultural transmission. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Pluralistic ignorance sustains corporal punishment norms, and shared visibility breaks them #expands (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 7389
• Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified #qualifies (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 9852
• Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them #exemplifies (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 10953