Children self-protect, adults abstain: The natural order between children and adults

Many parents think that parents protect their children better than anyone else. This is a common belief among American parents. Most of American adults believe that parents are the safest place for children to be. The fact of the matter is that there is no safe place for children in this country, period. Children self-protect, and then adults abstain. That's how God wants it. One keeps the other in line, from beneath.

Child oppression is a universal problem, not an isolated problem where one or two minority groups are solely responsible. The only people not guilty of child oppression are the children themselves. Child oppression comes from parental entitlement, which is a deserving and entitled attitude leading to imposed want on children. The Greek root word denoting all entitlement, including parental entitlement, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to, officially speaking, wanting things from children, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, parental entitlement refers to wanting anything from a child, period. We all as depraved adults have wronged children with our selfish wants imposed on them, and thus we all as adults are depraved and decadent sinners deserving of absolutely nothing in relation to children, not even respect, not even forgiveness.

Parental entitlement is dealt with specifically in the Bible, and is dealt with in offense format. See Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by the child, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishment or controlling demeanor towards a child. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, for punishing their children too many times. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding a child hostage merely for things they did wrong. Paul here was lifting up the Law to Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan customs of spanking and punishing children into the church. Contrary to popular legend, Paul himself was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of children. Paul was educating Greek and Roman newcomers to the Christian Church on proper Jewish parenting methods, which consisted of attachment parenting measures to form a secure parent-child bond. The Early Christians, in this context, were seen as a sect of Judaism, and Jewish parenting then and now has always been warm and loving in terms of parental attitude towards children.

What does this verse mean for children? Children have the right, under Divine Codified Jurisprudence, to assert boundaries with adults, with those boundaries taking a lawful and binding meaning under Divine Law. Children are extensions of God in the family home, and elsewhere, and are to enforce God's Law upon their parents and other similarly charged adults that care for them, with their every vulnerable need being Law. Children are to control for their needs from beneath, reigning terror on their parents, striking them with reverent fear and terror, with parents bending over backwards to serve children like waitstaff, as well as others charged with their care.

Children should have the right, under both moral and physical laws, to dial 9-1-1 when an adult strikes or punishes them for any reason. Punishing a child should be abolished completely under the physical law. It is in our values as a nation to allow children their rights, namely their rights as victims of domestic violence. Most children are victims of domestic violence, by the children's rights and biblical definition. Ideally, children should be able to domesticate their parents, and set boundaries, and if they can't, call 9-1-1 and get a police car to come to their house and set their parents straight.

Children are to be judged as innocent without a doubt, meaning sacrosanct. Adults, around children, are to judge themselves as guilty until proven innocent, beyond a reasonable doubt. This means that if they have any doubt about their self-interest in relation to children, they should follow that doubt and keep their parental entitlement in check. This is the concept of "adults abstain" - adults abstain from their self-interest, to avoid entitlement in relation to children.

Adults should stifle all self-interest in relation to children, re-channeling all parent anger and attraction inward, taking the attitude that one as an adult is a depraved and decadent sinner deserving of absolutely nothing in relation to children. When adults fail to keep themselves in line in relation to children, children have the right to hand parents the slate. The right way to see children, in the biblical tense, is fearsome in a thundering way, but because of their vulnerability and not despite it. Adults should fear the lawful and binding orders of children. 

Who protects children best? The children, themselves. That's why I advocate for children - because nobody lets them stand up for themselves. I do. They can stand up to me, and then I'd just be scared and comply with their wishes, instinctively and without question. I naturally want children to like me, but I am not deserving of that, and so I have to get on their good side. Usually, a child needs me to leave them alone, and if I don't respect that boundary, I am liable to the child's court of law. Parents have a poor track record of keeping children safe, meaning usually the parents are either doing it or in denial. So why do we rely on parents to keep children safe? Children are capable of reverse gaslighting, but most today don't feel safe doing it, except with adults like me who heed their boundaries. In other countries, the dynamic is different - children are able to keep their own abuser at bay while still living in the same home with them. 

I am a depraved and decadent sinner, deserving of absolutely nothing, just for being the adult that I am. Children owe me nothing, and I owe them everything I can provide for them. I am deserving of nothing but DEATH and PUNISHMENT in relation to children merely for my wretched existence as the adult that I am. I am grateful that children seem to trust and respect me, and that they forgive me their trespasses, as I am deserving of none of it, being the depraved and decadent adult that I am. I respect when a child rejects me, as I deserving nothing but rejection and resentment for being the wretched adult that I am.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!