Elucidating Questions

Custody

It has such terrible connotations

Like, he is in custody

He has been arrested

The police have decided he is not safe to others or himself

But

Children

Are also in custody

Doesn’t that

Doesn’t that ring sour?

Yet,

Children are in the custody of their parents

Or the state

Or one parent

Or the other

Custody

The simple way to bang it out is thus

Children are not educated in the world enough to not be a danger to themselves or others (most likely themselves)

Adults decide to become a danger to themselves or others (most likely others)

They must be in custody

One is a box with several hundred others

One is a box with five or six

Or three I guess

I find it so hard to look through the eyes of an only child

In custody

I wish someone else had taken custody of me when I was 13 and my parents shouldn’t have had children

My mother is a wonderful mother now that we’re all adults

In order to have hundreds of humans in custody each person responsible must undergo

Background checks

Education

Training

But to have one or two in custody

If every one in custody had at least one person assigned to them who was keeping them in custody

Maybe they’d turn out better

But those are adults and these are the next generation

Extensive training to raise adults

Children

And yet

At least all through humanity the one thing we have successfully taught most of the children

Ace-sexuals not withstanding

That the way to continue the species is sex

And we do it so

So like maybe my life doesn’t matter because I just

Not have custody

To spare my children from being raised by me

I don’t think I could understate

How much I love children

Much more than I do but I do love children

They are integral

And they are hurting

I know because I was one once

I wonder how everyone else forgets

Pain is a memory that never leaves

In the moment I know nothing I know pain and nothing else

I wouldn’t wish this on my child

So my child you are as unborn as you will always be