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ATTENTION: Producers of National Public Radio’s "Fresh Air."
Marty Moss-Coane's Interview with 4 women about orphan neglect in ChinaDear Producers and Marty,
After the policy talk, “controversy” and statistics, how do we regulate, comprehend and measure what remains? Children in pain, children in pain. Spinning from shock, could this be true? Which side should I take to make these revelations stop? Children in pain, children in pain. Cultural differences, disparate standards—which lens will recognize myopic hammers? Whose mediation will pronounce without stammers? Children in pain, children in pain.
“Children tied for two hours to the commode-- mere toilet training,” said the expert. “I have Asian friends who recall this as their history!” To not see that as violation but mere tradition is a most agonizing of collective mysteries. “Twelve-hour tie ups,” she said, “well, now, that'd be different.” I say, a split second of a child's pain feels like a lifetime in any culture. Let's abandon quantifiable explanations. Equal time logic is academia's incantation—ne'er preventing children in pain for generations. Looking is just. Holding accountable is not blaming. Looking is a must. Judging clearly is not shaming. “Doing the best they can...” coexists with the reality of children in pain. And why do some government workers or anyone not love the children? Was their childhood pain rationalized by numbing brains repeatedly in great and greater numbers? Was the blind eye stance perpetually ingrained? Look—to just look—ruled out—what a blunder! Is screaming after that so unreasonable?
There is no stand, no believing, no debate. Pain is pain in one form or another let's do not wait to see through to the root with every retrieved muscle of our own orphaned souls. Children in pain, children in view. Let's witness the abandoned children in ourselves and the world too. In subtle moments and dire emergencies, let's witness the sight. Let that be our adoption, together, and then...
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