my opinions on adults

so as you guys can see in my profile, i'm 13, and i have a lot of thoughts on adults. i've been thinking a lot about one specific thing, though. i think that if adults stopped viewing children as objects in both a legal and societal sense and started viewing us in the lens of actual people instead, the child assault and violence cases would drop. for all of history, kids have not been treated fairly. even today i still think that kids are oppressed. we don't have as many rights as adults do, and the government in multiple countries fails to protect the children. for example, before 2017, child marriage was legal everywhere in america, and even today it remains legal in 37 states, and in 117 nations child marriage is legal. another example is child labor laws, with many countries today not making the proper efforts to prevent child labor. corporeal punishment is still legal in many states and countries, allowing for kids to be abused and unnecessarily hurt under the guise that they are being disciplined. not only that, but in current day, there is a modern exploitation of kids and their lack of parental monitoring (elsagate, ai generated "kids content", sexual innuendos and terms being presented to young kids as "brainrot"). as you can see, children have been treated much like objects to adults. our words are not taken seriously, and when we do have people who actually think of our intelligence, it is treated as a novelty or as a gimmick, and not as something that has the potential to help many people. kids are constantly overlooked and underestimated, not to mention misunderstood. if grownups saw us as people instead of objects of our parents, they might actually see us as people worth talking to and understanding. this would benefit parents, who must understand their kids in order to build a true relationship with them. unfortunately, this isn't the case. adults see children through their own viewpoint; as brainless, erratic, and dumb animals without the need to be understood. they don't take the time to learn how to properly take care of and interact children, because we are just objects to them, and objects don't have the capacity to form thoughts, personalities, preferences, or habits. they deserve the treatment you give them. but that's not us - that's not kids. children are human, and people do have the capacity for all of those things. adults, however, do not think of us as human, and therefore do not think we are complex individuals worth empathizing with or knowing. if you're a grownup and you're somehow reading this, get to know and respect the kids in your life. we deserve it just as much as you do.