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The repulsive American belief & legal standard - that children are the property of their parents - has been around since the beginning. Benjamin fucking Franklin's father literally sold him to his dickbag older brother as a servant and Benjamin Franklin did the sensible thing in that situation and ran the fuck away to work for pay elsewhere. Illegally. Because he was still technically his adult brother's property.
We're one of like. two nations in the world that haven't ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, because religious fundamentalists need to own their children as property in order to keep their cults going. America is an enormous multitude of cults and real estate scams all stuffed into the trenchcoat of a single nation