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Parents generally have the right to know important facts about their children so they can parent well.
If your kid talks to someone else about something major and important to their lives BEFORE you, you have probably already fucked up as a parent and probably betrayed trust a number of times already. Or been a raging reactionary about something and you have to deal with the consequences of your own behavior by not being a part of your kid's personal life.
Either way, if a kid is old enough to talk about mature subjects about themselves and their lives with anyone, they're also old enough to decide who they feel safe enough to talk to.
This society broadly is riding a really weird line between if we're protecting our kids to the point of treating them like they have no agency at all. Parents have a knee-jerk reactionary behavior that makes them decide protecting a child also means absolutely neutering their ability to make decisions and feel like humans. Make it make sense.
If they aren't telling their parents, there is probably a very good reason.
What do you think that reason is?
Many times, fear of:
So on.
I saw this firsthand with friends in my high school days, and plenty of hard right repubs treat their kids the same way today.
So, IMO, very good reasons to be fearful.
You'll often see in supportive spaces that many will recommend not coming out if they dont know what the parents response will be, or how severe it will be, due to these risks.
Kids are inexperienced. It's why we trust parents to raise them into functional adults and to care for them until they are old enough to do it themselves.
Keeping parents in the dark about medical and mental conditions their children face insures kids won't receive proper care and nurturement.
Or it can result in the kid having the piss beaten out of them, like for one poor sod in my middle school class when his father found out he was gay do to a snitch of a teacher. Don't worry though retribution was had.
Kids are inexperienced. And It is the job of the parent to protect them. I don’t know why this comment is so downvoted. It’s pretty rational.
Yeh some parents are arseholes but for the most parents do need awareness so they can have conversations and help their child.
Most 9-11 year olds are getting their world from TicTok. Is that the better alternative to a parent who wants to help?
Not all parents are bad.
Parents who want to parent are free to not let their 9-11 year old get their world from TocTok.
Why do children not get any right to privacy at all, like they're just pets or something? There are some who would be put in danger if the parents found out, and they're smart enough to know this, otherwise they'd trust their own parents enough to just tell them instead of a third party.
Parents have a right to know what their child trusts them to know. If a kid is withholding information about their identity from their parent, it's because they fear their parents reaction. Parents do not have a right to know any piece of information at any time, nor should it be the responsibility of the school to report it to them.
Lol.
Lol go fuck yourself
Yeah, I don't see the issue here.
Having a law that forbids schools from sharing information about students with their parents is bonkers.
That's true but if it results in danger or harm to the child, then the parents forfeit that right.