For too long — pretty much, since forever — children have borne the brunt of adult dysfunction and adult evil. These days, kids are being jabbed, masked, isolated, manipulated, groomed, transed, and more.
Such crimes can be added to the nightmares that have seemingly always been around, e.g. abuse (physical, sexual, emotional), neglect, domestic violence, trafficking, etc.
All of the above can be lumped under the category of “adverse childhood events” or ACEs. An ACE is a traumatic experience that takes place anywhere between birth and 17 years of age.
More than 60 percent of American adults today endured at least one ACE as a child. One in six of them experienced four or more ACEs.
Girls, of course, are at the highest risk of childhood trauma.
The next phase of the ACE cycle happens slowly over time — as all those kids grow into adults. If their trauma is left unprocessed and unresolved, they may have to deal with debilitating mental health conditions like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
But, lesser known is the reality that childhood trauma also dramatically increases one’s odds of suffering from heart disease, cancer, and other diseases on the list of top killers. This reality sends them (as adults) into the third phase.
At least 25 percent of people with chronic and/or life-threatening illnesses will develop something called “medically-induced PTSD.” That’s how stressful and degraded our [sic] health [sic] care [sic] system is.
So, piled atop the dual nightmares of lingering childhood trauma and their adult struggle with deadly physical illnesses, they have another kind of PTSD that is related to being sucked into the Medical-Industrial vortex.
Read more about this vortex in my post “There’s nothing more dangerous than doctors, hospitals, and the medical industry” here:
Q. Why have I told you about this sordid cycle that breeds cradle-to-grave distress?
A. Because this cycle is entirely preventable.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
-- Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"
I disagree deeply with the last stanza but the first two stanzas contain some insight.
Consider, when abortion (infanticide) is normalized and excused as being common (popular), does this devalue and dehumanize human life? Is child abuse related to the desecration of human life?
A Baby is a Sacred Gift from God.