Remaining prohibitions face structural barriers the completed reforms did not

Evidence

The analysis that moderates that optimism is straightforward: the easy prohibitions — countries with strong civil society, ratified CRC, active domestic advocacy, and no major structural barriers — are largely done. The remaining 130 include large democracies with organized parental-rights movements, large authoritarian states where civil society advocacy has constrained reach, large federal systems where jurisdiction is distributed across dozens of subnational governments, and low-income states in Sub-Saharan Africa where the competition for child protection priority against child mortality, child labor, and child marriage is intense. — , The Rod and the Child, 7999

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: cross-regional comparison of which barrier (federalism vs. authoritarian reach vs. competing priorities) has proven most tractable.
• XREF: connects to: Legal prohibition without religious-institutional embedding remains only nominal — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8206; Cascade rates will decelerate as easier prohibitions exhaust and harder cases remain — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8142; Penal reform succeeded by managing illegalities differentially, not eliminating them — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 144 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cascade rates will decelerate as easier prohibitions exhaust and harder cases remain #corroborates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 8142
• Legal prohibition without religious-institutional embedding remains only nominal #complicates (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 8206