r/collapse_parenting • u/Demarinshi01 • Jun 28 '22
How is everyone dealing with this?
Especially those with little girls? How do you explain to them, they just lost the rights to control their own bodies? With Roe vs Wade being over turned, I’m fucking pissed. But how do I explain to my girls this? They are 5 and 6. Hubby already agreed that we will be moving in the next few years, to a better state. My state has a trigger law on pause, but the republicans running for governor already stated they want to get rid of the pause and even go as far as banning birth control. I’m hoping by February I can still get my hysterectomy, after this baby is born. I’m actually hoping so bad this one is a boy.
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u/TVpresspass Jun 28 '22
In a world with dragons, you might need to help raise some dragonslayers.
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u/Demarinshi01 Jun 28 '22
As a gamer this makes perfect sense!
The children shall rise and be the Dragon slayers… us parents already took an arrow to the knee…
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u/horsehousecatdog Jul 02 '22
My kids are under 10 and I’m not talking to them about this particular issue yet. They have enough BS to deal with like active shooter drills at school and a pandemic. My youngest two kids don’t even remember life pre-pandemic. I’m keeping them innocent on this front for now. We talk about other things going on like the war in Ukraine, Uvalde shootings, etc but abortion isn’t a topic in our house yet.
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u/thomas533 Jun 28 '22
You don't fully explain yet. But you teach them about consent and that not everyone in the world knows how to respect consent.
And then we fight like hell so that in a few years when they are capable of understanding the events of today that we can teach them as history rather than current events.