if a person violates the innocence of a young child, they are shunned and shown deep hatred for their actions, to the point of being beaten to death. — Shawn
In that instance, 'innocence' simply means that the accused has not committed the particular crime of which he stands accused. It does not mean a general innocence, as of a newborn babe.In the field of law there's a dictum or principle that one must be assumed innocent until proven guilty. — Shawn
, it usually refers to activities of a sexual nature, to which the child is physically and/or emotionally too immature to consent.violates the innocence of a young child, — Shawn
So long as the child is a minor, the parent is required to protect it both from premature sexual contacts and from criminal involvement. However, the degree of childhood innocence in all areas of human experience steadily diminishes from age 0 to adulthood. Some adults continue long after the age of majority to maintain a degree of childlike innocence; some people carry vestiges of it through life.I think that by having children one is not only implicitly; but, explicitly responsible for maintaining the innocence of the child. — Shawn
As a challenge. By the time a child acquires language, her innocence has already begun to erode. Typically, a child begins to lie - verbally, deliberately - around the age of four. Before that, there are moments of guile, subterfuge, duplicity, but they are usually opportunistic crimes, not premeditated ones.So, how do parents view this topic? — Shawn
I personally don't see how having children matters in this. — Tom Storm
It's not like parents can always tell when a child stops being innocent, or whether innocence is some kind of transcendental essence, embodied in childhood. — Tom Storm
Kids can't defend themselves and most people have an innate wish to protect the weak (the vulnerable and the trusting) from the strong predator. — Tom Storm
A more complex understanding of innocence itself is probably not part of the framing. — Tom Storm
When he enters the school system, the child is no longer wrapped in a cocoon of innocence - nor should he be. He must learn to navigate a society in which deceit and chicanery play prominent roles.
It is the parents' assigned task to prepare them as well as possible. — Vera Mont
Strange how gang members or criminals in the US have a thing for such people preying on the weak. — Shawn
Again, I assumed that parents know or are responsible for maintaining the state of childhood called 'innocence'. — Shawn
I do not associate it with 'purity' as I tend to think of this word (when applied to humans) as having a Christian association - as in purity culture. As a secularist, I see no use for such a frame. — Tom Storm
Yeah. It's largely uncontrolled, so that no authorities know which parents are beating their kids, or making them kneel on cement floors as penance. I've seen a number of home-schooling textbooks. The basic arithmetic and spelling are fine, but when you get into science, it's often sadly deficient and the history/social studies courses reek of exceptional nationalism. I have seen no materials at all - none - on sex education or general health and hygiene. If innocence means ignorance, you're on the right track.I've always been a proponent of homeschooling, which is something popular in the US. — Shawn
..innocent until proven guilty. ... ..the innocence of a young child... — Shawn
There is a great danger in infantilizing our young, and in idealizing ignorance as a state of bliss.
Children are capable of understanding, learning and doing far more than we allow them to. — Vera Mont
What is innocence, and why is it very important to society and law? — Shawn
What is innocence, and why is it very important to society and law? — Shawn
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