Earlier tonight, Jill Miller Zimon, our coblogger at The Moderate Voice, replied in comments to an article I’d written about how some persons intimidate and force young children to hysteria… children who have done nothing to provoke such, in order to instill fear into the child… and how others sometimes dont see such as intimidation and abuse… as long as the child is not slapped around.
Zimon’s comment was so poignant, I wanted to give it its own venue here:
“I always work to call up my strength to go up to strangers when I see things such as you witnessed…”
Zimon added this poignant historical set of facts that are long forgotten by many:
“I suspect you know this too, but just in case people aren’t aware, the ASPCA [American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals] came into existence before… child-protection organizations and laws did…
[AND] “the man responsible for creating the ASPCA [also] helped create the first juvenile agency as well…”
You can read about Henry Bergh, ‘friend of the animals,’ and a progenitor of ‘the child-saving movement’ here.