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- Feminist focus on children was a central component of contemporary radical feminist movement.
- One of the primary difficulties feminist thinkers faced when confronting sexism within families was that more often than not female parents were the transmitters of sexist thinking.
  - Women taught and teach children sexist thinking. In actuality women who head households in patriarchal society often feel guilty about the absence of a male figure and are hypervigilant about imparting sexist values to children, especially males.
- Within white supremacist capitalist patriarchal cultures of domination children do not have rights.
  - Feminist movement was the first movement for social justice in this society to call attention to the fact that ours is a culture that does not love children, that continues to see children as the property of parents to do with as they will.
  - Feminist movement called attention to the fact that male domination in the home often creates an autocracy where men sexually abuse children, the fact is that masses of children are daily abused verbally and physically by women and men.
  - Maternal sadism often leads women to emotionally abuse children.
- We have all been socialized to embrace patriarchal thinking, to embrace an ethics of domination which says the powerful have the right to rule over the powerless and can use any means to subordinate them.
- Male sexual abuse  of children happens more often and is reported more often than female abuses, but female sexual coercion of children must be seen as just as horrendous as male abuse.
  - Beyond the realm of sexual abuse, violence against children takes many forms; the most commonplace forms are acts of verbal and psychological abuse.
- Abusive shaming lays the foundation for other forms of abuse.
  - Male children are often subjected to abuse when their behavior does not conform to sexist notions of masculinity. They are often shamed by sexist adults (particularly mothers) and other children.
- Working within a social context where sexism is still the norm, where there is unnecessary competition promoting envy, distrust, antagonism, and malice between individuals, makes work stressful, frustrating, and often totally unsatisfying... many women who like and enjoy the wage work they do feel that it takes too much of their time, leaving little space for other satisfying pursuits. While work may help women gain a degree of financial independence or even financial self-sufficiency, for most women it has not adequately fulfilled human needs. As a consequence women's search for fulfilling labor done in an environment of care has led to reemphasizing the importanceof family and the positive aspects of motherhood.
- Mainstream culture launched a vicious critique of single-parent, female-headed house-holds. That critique was most harsh when it came to the question of welfare. Ignoring all the data which shows how skillfully loving signal mothers parent with very little income whether they receive state assistance or work for a wage, patriarchal critiques call attention to dysfunctional female-headed households, act as though these are the norm, then suggest the problem can be solved if men were in the pictures as patriarchal providers and heads of households.
- In a culture which holds the two-parent patriarchal family in higher esteem than any other arrangement, all children feel emotionally insecure when their family does not measure up to the standard.
- Children need to be raised in loving environments. Whenever domination is present love is lacking.
  - Ending patriarchal domination of children, by men or women, is the only way to make the family a place where children can be safe, where they can be free, where they can know love.