Part 9 Children need protection

 Children need protection from bullying in any form.  I feel especially strong that they need protection from adult sexual predators.  When I note the recent abduction of the 8-year old boy in Philadelphia by a sexual predator that raped him and the ten-year old abductions of three teenage girls in Cleveland by three brothers, who just escaped May 6 and the recent abduction and rape of a Philadelphia five-year old girl by a grown woman posing as her mother, I wonder about how well protected children are in this society.  We give lip service to how much we value children.  but we can't agree that background checks of gun purchases at gun shows and over the Internet are worthwhile.  Why not do away with background checks all together then?  There's a good way to show we care about the ability of anyone to do a mass shooting in schools and on public playgrounds.  People opposed to gun control don't care about protecting children. No, you really don't!  Why don't you be honest with yourselves for a change?  The safety of children from crazy people with guns is less important to you than the personal security you get from being surrounded by guns.
       Gun lovers are not alone in their indifference to the well-being of children in our society.  There is an underlying callous disregard for children in America.  It may not be as widespread as when I was growing up fifty years ago.  But it's still there.  Rich kids have never been as negatively affected by it as children from poorer families.  The recent news events from Philly and Cleveland indicate that if there were more sexual predators of children, there would simply be more victims,  What is more precious, more sacrosanct, more blameless that the fleeting innocence of children.  To expose children first hand to the evil potential of human beings is to deprive them of that which they will never possess again.  Do we care?  We don't allow rabid dogs to freely roam the streets.  Why would we allow known sexual predators of children to freely roam those same streets?  Unless we simply don't care unless and until it is our son or daughter that gets snatched?
       Personally, I think the genocide of sexual predators of children would be the most effective solution to this problem.  Too bad it's not legal to create a fund to financially reward anyone who castrates adult child rapists.  That shows my desire to out bully the bullies.
       Getting more real, why shouldn't adult rapists of children be deprived of their sexual drive as a way of protecting children?  If that is not scientifically effective in decreasing the rate of recidivism, then we should create communities for sexual abusers of children (separate for convicted male and female offenders) surrounded by electrified fence buried down to bedrock.  No children allowed.  They should have to live out the rest of their lives in there producing their own food, electricity ,etc.  Cruel and unusual?  What is cruel and unusual is society allowing these people access to innocent children.
        Yes.  Children these days, as in all past ages, are self-centered, spoiled, irritating.  But they still need to receive unconditional positive regard and society's attitude that "bad things inevitably happen
and there is nothing that could have been done to stop it" does not result in children's thriving.