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Childism can refer either to advocacy for empowering children as a subjugated group or to prejudice and/or discrimination against children or childlike qualities. [1] It can operate thus both as a positive term for a movement, like the term feminism, as well as a critical term to identify age-based prejudice and discrimination against children, like the term racism.
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
It can take the form of a child who displays adult-like qualities, giving, for example, wise advice to their friends, or vice versa [clarification needed] (like Raymond in the film Rain Man). More generally, "the child star can be conceptualized as a modern manifestation of the ancient archetype of the wonder-child". [11]
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019). Goldberg, Ellis. Trade, Reputation, and Child Labor in Twentieth-Century Egypt (2004) excerpt and text search] Grier, Beverly. Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe (2005) Hindman, Hugh D. Child Labor: An American History (2002) Humphries ...
Specific examples include faith healing of certain Christian sects, denominations which eschew medical care including vaccinations or blood transfusions, and exorcisms. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Faith based practices for healing purposes have come into direct conflict with both the medical profession and the law when victims of these practices are harmed ...
The PWA used government money to build infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, for the state. This demand for construction created new jobs, which achieved Roosevelt's main priority. The National Recovery Act also improved working conditions and outlawed child labor. Wages increased, making it possible for workers to earn and spend more.
The panelists repeated the myth that America was founded as a Christian nation and misrepresented our Constitution’s promise of separation between church and state.
Thunderbirds, for example, was designed specifically to capitalize on this "kidult" demographic and aired in the evening rather than in the afternoon to accomplish this. [8] [9] One of the most well-known and extreme cases of Peter Pan syndrome and the kidult mentality was of Michael Jackson. Jackson had explicitly stated that he did not want ...