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It’s Not Fair

Why It’s Time for a Grown-Up Conversation About How Adults Treat Children

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It’s Not Fair

By: Eloise Rickman
Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
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About this listen

Why do some adults think it's fine to hit children? Why does the school system fail so many pupils? And when their future is on the line, why can't children vote?

How we treat children isn't fair. Despite the lip service paid to their rights, children are still discriminated against in every aspect of their lives: rising levels of child poverty, underfunded and outdated education and childcare systems, controlling parenting practices, and political systems that exclude their voices on issues which will affect them most—not least the climate crisis.

Children are not passive victims of oppression, but their resistance and struggle for equality has been largely ignored by the wider social justice movement—until now. In this groundbreaking manifesto, Eloise Rickman argues that it's time to stop viewing children as less than adults and start fighting for their rights to be taken seriously.

Radical, compassionate, and profoundly hopeful, this powerful new book signals the start of a long-overdue conversation about how we treat children. It's Not Fair is a call to embrace children’s liberation and the possibility of a better, fairer world.

©2024 Eloise Rickman (P)2024 Tantor Media
Children's Studies Developmental Psychology Education Parenting & Families Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences Social Movement Social justice Socialism

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This book raises so many good points. It points out so many contradictions between how we treat protected characteristics and children. It have a name to some ideas that I had already thought.
It is radical, but definitely in a good way. (Occasionally possibly slightly too radical, but by the end of the book I was increasingly feeling that it wasn't.)
It's not preachy. It gives practical suggestions on how those interested in children's rights and the future of the world can make a difference.

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