The disrespect of childhood

I think that children are both respected and disrespected. I think that children who live in poverty are very much so disrespected. This can be seen even more vividly since the passing of the sequester. there have been majors cuts to early childhood education. In May National Public radio did a story on how the srquestration was effecting Head Start programs. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=213578203. It is widely believed that the early intervention in the best for children, but with the recent across the board budget cuts ( that turned out to not be so across the board) many children will not get the chance to have these early intervention services. This can also be seen in child protective services, in Montana the average case load for a CPS worker is around 50, many have more then this. There is no way that anyone could ensure the safety of that many children. CPS workers have been told that they can no longer work overtime which limits the hours in the day that they are able to work with families. This year the Montana legislature cut funding for 13.5 CPS workers, offices had to close and other offices were combine leaving many rural areas without a CPS worker within 50 miles.These is less funding for insurance for children as well as less funding for food stamps.

The children of the extremely wealthy don't seem to be too much better off. These children are often treated as accessories. Many of these children although are allowed every advantage in the world are often raise by a nanny and not their own parents and they have extreme stresses on them to do their best. In large cities children of the wealthy have to past tests to get into preschools. In this case childhood in many cases in taken away because of the need for parents to be able to say my child achieved this or that.