Fight against Child Abuse

Fight against Child Abuse

by E. Moosbrugger

https://creationaltruth.org/FIGU/Overpopulation/Child-and-Youth-Protection/Fight-against-Child-Abuse

Whatever newspaper one also always opens, horror stories like the following are read each day: Children as spies; girl (6) strangled and abused; in ostentation - 14 year old kills his/her parents; killers hunt street children of Rio; children as best commodity - worldwide ten million children are victims of the prostitution; worldwide toil 200 million children, of them 146 million like slaves; in Germany alone 50,000 children live on the street; every third child over twelve has already drunk alcohol once or multiple times, etc., and so forth.

The reports are endless and take on Gewalt and brutality in frightening magnitude. Whoever is still amazed then by it, when parents speak in response of that, which they have fear of their own child. Always more often parents and teachers are exposed to the aggressions of the children and young persons, often even physical Gewalt. Then the adults react to these attacks at an increasing rate with faint, helplessness and sometimes even with fear.

Child Abuse through Child Labor

Children were and are on this world a cheap worker. A child has an entirely natural need to help and perform small duties, when it is psychically healthy and grows up in a harmonious environment. That means therefore also, that a child incurs no harm, when its aid in house and farm is held off. On the contrary; this aid is even urgently required for a healthy psyche development, because a child must already early learn, that everyone in the community has to assume certain duties and tasks and to handle, adapting to the capability and ability of the individual family members. This is however an activity, which not the slightest has in common with the even today practiced child labor. With the child labor, which before all things in the poor countries is still common practice, it is a matter of the abuse of the child's capability for work. Specifically in the countries, where carpets are made or footballs are produced, etc., mostly children accomplish this work because they, with their small hands, are more skillful and faster than adults. An Australian study, prepared by the 'Society for Slavery', reported about it, that there are 146 million child slaves in the world. Those must work from six in the morning to midnight. In India alone live 73 million children, that make carpets, sew footballs, produce fireworks or fill perfumes, etc. When they do not work enough, they are with glowing irons, punished with whippings and captivations.

Child Abuse through Sexual Abuse

How sick, perverse and ausgeartet (very badly got out of the control of the good human nature) the so-called mature human beings think and act like, shows itself especially precise in the sexual abuse of the children, whereby also sex tourism plays an important inglorious roll. For normally thinking human beings sexual child abuse is an incomprehensible fact, which brings the blood to boiling in him/her, when he/she is confronted with this ausgearteten activity. The tendency for the child-abusive inhumane behavior is clearly increasing. The lousy, unhuman business with the child sex booms. Worldwide about ten million children are forced into the prostitution, the UN estimates. About one million children are added annually, reported 'Terre des Hommes'. The focal point regarding this lies above all in Asia.

An equally horrible, morbid, despicable chapter is the violation of children through one's own father, brother or uncle; through strange pathological men and sexual offenders, as well as through ausgeartete, of the bloodlust succumbed soldiers, who also not only violate, defile and abuse defenseless women, but rather also still innocent children.

Child Abuse through Psychical Terror

The psychical terror perpetrated on children is a fact, which finds much too little attention. It begins already there, where children are not seriously taken as full-fledged human beings and their statements are only sneered at. As an all-mighty adult, one rather proceeds from louder convenience in the same manner, although with all clearness has made the one's own child attentive on deficiencies or inabilities, that urgently require a change. As a rule the adults are not great enough in themselves, in order to learn from a child. Rather they continue their daily ranting and shouting, that leave monstrous scars in the children and they feeling-based are left lifeless. This is then more recognizable also in their facial expression and in their entire behavior. Since the psyche is formed from the factors of thinking and feeling, one can him/herself imagine, what outcome effects are caused within children, in which e.g. any capability is denied with sentences like: “But you are too stupid, in order to do this and that! You can't do that! You are good for nothing!” etc., and so forth.

All statements, that are not applicable to this, strengthen the self-worth feeling of a child. Hidden psychical terror is also used there, where parents would like to stow the realization of their own wishes and imaginations on their child; therefore the little girl, that should be the ice princess, because the mother could not fulfill this wish herself. The father, that wants to make a tennis star out of the daughter or the son, etc.

Still an important factor to be considered is: Children, whom one would like to protect from all suffering and negative experiences. Here it is a matter of a positive Ausartung (something that has very badly got out of the control of the good human nature), that let the children psychically wither and through that the egocentric attitude is stirred up. Furthermore thus weakens educated children in their consciousness and in their mode of life, which is why they are not able to stand up to attacks and emotional stresses. From this it can be inferred that also positive-ausgeartete factors can constitute psychical terror. A well-known example for the positive Ausartung is the anti-authoritarian upbringing. Here practically no limitations are imposed on the children, because they may and can determine everything for themselves. Unfortunately the children thus brought-up have developed themselves into real ego-monsters, which today form a part of our society. In any case the psychical terror in the raising of the children is more common than is generally admitted.

A further psyche-damaging disastrous thing is abuse of the children as willing consumers. Instead of furthering and encouraging them in their creativity, they are lured and used for materialistic profit purposes; this is in the advertisement, in the sale, in the form of the children's program or wherever. The little ones are courted as possible customers. Thereby it goes not in order to benefit the children, but rather in order to benefit those, who enrich themselves through the children. Statistics for this: Children make 75% of the purchase decisions in a family; in Germany the industry invests annually 600 million Deutschmarks in advertisement, which have children as the target audience; in the children's programming the private stations direct themselves every second to advertising messages directly to children; Children daily see on the average 30 advertising spots; 37% of the four year olds cannot distinguish advertisements and programs from each other; every third child identifies him/herself with 'the advertising children'.

Child Abuse through Torture and Corporal Punishments

Also with this chapter one's neck hair bristles itself, and a shiver runs down the back. Children are beaten to death by parents; one lets them starve; they are tortured with glowing cigarettes, kicks, blows; one robs them of their freedom and cages them for weeks and for months. The infamous actions of the adults, perpetrated on children, are extremely most numerous and scarcely exceeded in their deviancy, and the defenseless created creations have no possibility, to escape this terror. Intervention from outsiders often occurs first then, when it is already too late, because the human beings act from the weak intelligence motto 'live and let live', instead of from the nature-given maxim 'live and help live'.

Child Abuse through Overpopulation

Yes, you read correctly, because the cause and the main disastrous thing of the child abuse lies in the overpopulation, as with all the other great problems of this world. In a annotation for the World Children's Day on 20 September 1995 the following was to be read: “The World Children's Day of the UN was this week." Nobody bothered too much about it. Unjustly. The suffering of the children of this world is hardly understandable. Millions die each year through malnutrition or crippled through wrong diet. An ocean of grief hides behind this sentence. War, illness and hunger, the infestations of the underdeveloped countries, always beat the weakest ones first. Whoever has seen the little victims of the misery in Africa and Asia once, can hardly forget them: the stomach distended to the drum, arms and legs dry branches equally spread out, they crouch apathetically on the wayside. The skin is chapped, flies nest in the wounds, the hair fall out, abnormally widened eyes have lost all sparkle. “Can a greater suffering ever be conceived for the mortal ones, than to see the children die, the poet Euripides already asked more than 2000 years ago." provided by Claus Jacobi from the Bild-Zeitung.

When one reads these words, one immediately feels depressed and full of pity for the children, and precisely this pity lets the majority of the human beings act wrongly. Intellect and rationality are washed away in a sea of tears by the wrongly created feelings, whereby a right and nature-given solution to this problem no more can be realized. The thinking reaches only up to the tip of the nose due to ausgearteter sympathy, which is why organizations are initiated in the life, that in wrong-humanistic form provide these children medically and feed with nourishment. In the course of this is smoothly overlooked, that these children will mature and procreate descendants, who then stand before the same problems.

“Less is more”, states a proverb. Therefore a long-term solution can only read: Let the hungering children die in dignity, when they cannot be fed and provided for by their parents, relatives or by their own people. Precisely in the countries of the third world is assumed by them, that children form the riches of the parents, because they hope, that their many children provide for them in the old age. This however is a naïve assessment of the situation and an immense erroneous assumption for it, because the more children that live in a family, the more must be fed, provided for, educated and formed. What the reality however proves, can from more sufficient nourishment, let alone from culture, not to be mentioned, thus after all a multitude of children must suffer hunger and die miserably, only because an urgently demanded planned parenthood is not fulfilled. It would be more senseful, if families in the third world countries e.g. would have only two children. For these could then much better be provided for, whereby their starting possibilities in the life essentially would be more favorable. Such children are then also much rather in the position, to provide for their parents in the old age.

There live simply too many human beings on this world, inhumanely must dwell packed together in apartment blocks, shabby huts, ghettos etc. The wish of many for one's own home in the country remains unfulfillable, because not sufficient country exists, in order for each family in Germany, the Switzerland or in another country to make this possible, not even, when sufficient money would exist. So that human beings can to live however in dignity and freely unfold themselves, housing conditions are necessary, that guarantee the individual also the necessary free space in free nature, which corresponds to the inner requirements of the individual. This applies above all for the children. They must be able to playfully unfold themselves, so that they develop imaginative power, consciousness and fantasy in healthy amount. Television and computer games e.g. are for it absolutely no replacement, also not for lack of possibilities of play and unfolding. They let the creativity of the children wither, because imagination and fantasy are no more demanded, such as this is the case e.g. on an adventure playground or in the forest. Even with book reading the child develops more fantasy than from the television. Professor Peter Struck, a German education researcher, said in an interview: “Children today play less outside, spend too much time with televisions, computer games and listening to music. In the course of this they no longer learn things such as a balancing, climbing, jumping etc. A study covers, that city children for example can hardly still run backwards. Children, who can no longer coordinate their motion sequences, bring themselves and others in danger. They wither physically and emotionally.” They wither not only physically and emotionally, but rather they weaken also in their consciousness. This in turn impairs their thinking, feeling and action. Burdens of all kinds are no more borne, which is why children already react to normal challenges aggressively or depressively, and a large number are already psychologically confused to such an extent, that they can no longer manage without sedative tablets. Therefore once again Claus Jacobi shall be quoted: “We, whose children grow up on the other side of the hardship, should for that reason each day be thankful. Instead of this we take it for granted and have created states, that the realm of the childish innocence is not precisely beneficial, a world with greed and Gewalt, drugs, porn and fairy tale researchers, who recognize in the Frog Prince a disguised phallus-symbol. Every mother, who the professional career is the most important, every father, who himself gets divorced, stole something of son and daughter, that actually belongs to them. And thus some are more anxious about about his/her account than about his/her child.”

In few words is here described a bitter fact of our days: Children before all things in the affluent societies often as annoying and disrupting are perceived in a fine-fluidal wise - disrupting in the ego-unfolding of the adults. However how could it also be differently, the so-called adults are after all nothing other than large children. Their intellect and their rationality remains small, because thus as they now their own children wrongly treat and bring up, it was handed down to them as a child. They know nothing else. Never have they learned, what it means, to be autonomous. Autonomy is more than to bear one's own household and to pursue a profession. Being autonomous means, to assume complete responsibility for all his/her thoughts, activity and actions, in order to also be complete with the consequences developing from this. However the rule looks then, that descendants are educated in accordance with the one's own wishes and imaginations, which is why they are a likeness, a template of their parents; that is to say: Children rise into the footsteps of the parents. So that however a human being can become autonomous, he/she must move him/herself away from his/her parents' house and spend several years 'away'. In this time to him/her the wind should considerably whistle around the ears, because only then is the young human being compelled, to seek means and ways, in order to become fair in all challenges. Formerly there used to be the learning and walking years, where the young person went on the journey, in order to obtain experience in life and profession.

In practice it is however very often thus, that the young human beings directly from the parents' house step into the state of the marriage. An inner autonomy was thus not worked out. Problems become furthermore discussed with the parents and frequently the parents attempt, to determine over their children; they give them advice, directions and harbor secretly or open expectations, how the now the married children have to behave compared with them. That by such a behavior the young marriage is burdened, is self-explanatory. The young pair cannot themselves get it together unimpaired, which itself has a burdening effect on the relationship. Provides itself with them then an offspring, then it becomes still more challenging. Joy over the child may still be so great, avoidable wrong upbringing is already preprogrammed, which would frequently lead to the child abuse.

Also there are pre-programmed difficulties, where two human beings in a partnership have united themselves; but after some time they determined, that they can find no common level. Often enough comes about then the irrational opinion, a child can again patch the wrecked relationship. An enormous erroneous assumption, because to the existing unpeace comes a new addition, which then often leads to the splitting. Now there are three persons, who must find common ground. These situations always create stress factors, thus the one or other parents or both of them the nerves run wild, whereby they snap and become unpredictable. The child also starts still to whine, which in a such kind of situation is only logical, because it perceives like a fine radar the unpeace, then it becomes the scapegoat. Depending upon temperament, character and penchant of the adults look then at the reactions. There where rationality predominates, at the very least one of the parents goes to them, takes the child into the arms and calms it down. It is seen differently with the egoists and irrational ones. They strike the child, shout at it, abuse it with kicks etc., and so forth. The dogs bites the weakest one; after this principle is then acted. If the wrong behavior however is not recognized by the adults and is not rigorously changed, then this state escalates more and more. Mothers let their children starve, fathers sexually abuse their daughters, the descendants are beaten black and blue and many other ugly ones, repulsive ones and brutal ones cross the stage.

It is entirely especially terrible for descendants, when women want to satisfy selfish ego wishes, as this has been admitted to us by women, who have AIDS. They wanted to come to know the experience of the motherhood before they die, thus they entirely consciously took into account, that their child came into the world already with AIDS. Such machinations are feloniously criminal and come equal to a murder. That is most terrible child abuse, because to the woman it is not at all about the young human beings, that should see the light of the world and lead a life in love and harmony, but rather only about the satisfaction of personal egoistic wishes. Unfortunately these things occur much more often than one assumes, because only from such reasons is to be explained, why in a prosperity state like Germany 50,000 children live on the street.

The fundamental disastrous thing of everything - this must once again specifically be emphasized - lies solely and exclusively in the overpopulation. The more the world population rises, the greater will become the number of the children, mistreated, abused and enslaved. It is no wonder then, when these psychologically disturbed children strike back in the same and still harder tenor, because as a rule these children are neglected, since they know nothing other than arguing, unreliability and brutality. Love, harmony and responsibility are foreign words for them. Consequently they reach to drugs and alcohol; develop themselves into thieves and thugs; that lie through their teeth; terrorize and torment same age ones or younger ones; they join in youth-gangs, etc., and so forth. The egocentrism, that a child is one's own, continues itself in the youth- and adult-age and develops itself to the rough all-of-yourself-enforcement without tolerance, consideration and lenience for the strangers and ones with a different nature. With this way of thinking and behavior, partnerships are then entered into and descendants procreated, whereby the disastrous things themselves can continuously propagate. Naturally each human being has the opportunity, to liberate him/herself from this cycle, however for this belongs an iron Will, tough self-education and an tremendous power to act, in order to bring to an end the psychical damages that are incurred. The practice proves, that this rarely is the case.

Now it asks itself, how are all the shortcomings, that prevail in the raising of children and in the treatment of children to be eliminated?

The most important factor is clearly the reduction of the overpopulation, which can be brought about only with the stopping and backward stepping through a strictly regulated birth control (see Overpopulation brochures 1 and 3).

Furthermore a special commission must be formed at each place of the world, that themselves seriously and with all consequences take a stand for concerns of the children. The child welfare services are in principle not suitable for this task, because “majority of specialists are not psychologically trained and are rarely further trained. The majority of offices are understaffed. A supervisory authority, like the trade supervisory board in the industry, is not existing”, says a spokeswoman of the 'Initiative Jugendamtgeschädigter (initiative of youth welfare service-victims)'.

At the same time the teaching of nurturing (upbringing/parenting) must be established as a further subject of instruction in the schools. To bring up children as autonomous and responsibility conscious human beings is the most difficult task that parents have to solve. How they are able to cope with this, they however learn nowhere, therefore in primary schools, high schools and adult education centers is demanded, the teaching of upbringing (parenting) be introduced into their educational program.

Also an office or the like would have to be established, in which the married couples are examined for their capability to raise the children. If there exist pairs with a wish to have children, then is thereby still not far said, that they also are really capable to raise this child with all necessary care, love and in harmony. Not until when that made cognizable of the safety is rendered, may pairs get the permission to put descendants into the world. Equally to take into consideration is the economic, social, ethical and health circumstances which if necessary also prohibit a descendants procreation (more information for this in the text Overpopulation 13).

Child abusers must be delivered before court and their deed be punished accordingly severe, because child abuse is no harmless crime, although this always again is so judged. The ones administering justice should bear themselves before eyes, that here a human life was destroyed, because in few cases is it possible, to actually bring to an end the resulting damages. The life of the human beings concerned is practically ruined, and this amounts almost equal to a murder.

Fundamental one is to say, that each child abuse also brings with it a destruction of the psyche. A healthy psyche is however the Alpha and Omega (essential thing), with which a human being can pursue his/her life in evolutionary sense, therefore the 'hygiene of the psyche' must begin immediately after the birth. Whereupon it arrives in detail, should be elucidated in the following. It deals itself around an excerpt from the directives (by Billy) about the topic 'Hygiene of the Psyche' in regard to the raising of children:

The psychical hygiene begins not first in the adulthood of the human beings, but rather already in the infancy, and indeed already directly after its birth. Of utmost importance is thereby, to consider, that a newborn child is not removed from the mother, as this unfortunately is common in hospitals, but rather is left with her. This is the first, for the newborn most impressionable and most important psyche-hygienic occurrence in its beginning life.

The psychiatry gives many confusing proposals, that deal with the psychical care of the human beings, this both in the respect to children as well as to adults. Many of the proposals are thereby very good, others however are in turn given from out of unknowledge, from unintellect and not knowing of the psyche of the human beings.

In the most fundamental form the following is to be said in the regard to the psyche: In the first and foremost the family of human beings represents the most valueful and most irreplaceable place of refuge, that as most reliable stronghold provides the best possible safety, this in particular at times of difficult tremors, which occur especially with heavy burdens …

The family care is entirely especially irreplaceable with the nursery child, in particular however with the infant. At this age caregiving damages in psychical form emerge with the child, then these are in the latter life hardly made to be good. All attempts to further make good very often fail both by the damaged ones themselves as also by outer influences. Nursery children, in particular infants, already after the birth require the full heedfulness of the family, in every wise. Thereby not just the stepping forward of the mother is of significance, but also the father and the siblings.

Previously was idiotically claimed by know-it-alls (whereby this claim partially is still today adhered to by irrational ones), that the infant especially during the first months of life should be left in rest, whereby the common caring fully suffices such as feeding, changing and bathing, because any further bothering with the infant for this is only detrimental. Stimulations of all kinds, thus was and is partially still today the opinion, is detrimental for the infant, thus also the talking with the infant, who in any case understands nothing. Truthly it is it however thus, that an infant, and precisely more such, needs the same stimulations of all kinds and conversation, as also the mature human being. If that is sufficiently done, then the psychical hygiene is as a best encouragement accomplished, and the human being flourishes, because he/she even finds recognition. His/her psyche can function correctly and be free from burdening grime, whereby the state of the unweighted and hygienic psyche comes about.

As with the adolescent human beings already growing into the adulthood his/her self-education is necessary, thus also with the infant and child the upbringing by the family plays a very important roll. Family upbringing has thereby a dual function, it brings with it yet two different tasks of importance in itself: First of all through the family upbringing the unfolding in the child of all established penchants is guaranteed, and secondly they should make conscious to the child the responsibility of the life and truth, whereby he/she becomes able, to live in and integrate him/herself into the coming world of his/her future, all things of the human beings, the fauna and flora and the planet and universe. Precisely all that however is in the today's time more monstrously complicated, which is why many-fold breaches against natural laws and recommendations must be cast out, if one wants to live in the world of today. At the very least the present time and the thoughts and actions of the human beings of the Earth demand very much mutual respect and tolerance, otherwise the life would not be bearable. If these facts cannot be made plausible and therefore understandable to an adolescent child early enough, then a mismanagement occurs, which leads to the flipping out and departure. Especially in the early infancy the human being is appallingly egocentric. Something must part with the next one, must stand back or the peaceful life with each other means in this egocentric state often terrible agonies, and the upbringing at this stage is mis-driven, lax or inadequately handled, then this means for the adolescent human beings, that he/she already in the near future no more comes clean with his/her environment and with him/herself and for this reason is continuously at war with it. The human being namely, in his/her childhood was raised wrongly or inadequately, which itself as a rule also let no healthy self-education be provided. Thereby he/she remains egocentric, and in egocentric form he/she always only sees his/her own advantage. His/Her entire psyche is unhygienic and to such an extent covered with grime, that this can hardly be removed any more, except when the concerned human being one day stands on one's own feet through any circumstances, creates an iron will and changes everything. This however is a rarity, which itself among 10 million human beings perhaps someday comes about.

If the family wants the adolescent human beings to avoid a hygienically defective psyche, then the duty of instructing through the upbringing must be practiced always further with unending endurance. To the adolescent human beings must as early as from youngest age in fullest heedfulness already be given and everything in everlasting endurance once again educationally (in upbringing) be taught. Upbringing however does not mean use of force, but rather love in every wise.

The upbringing of the human beings is not easy, both not the upbringing of a child as also not the self-education or the education of adults. Each human being is classified in natural time periods, so therefore also the child. These time periods bring special characteristics with it, through which the human being behaves in a very distinct kind and wise. If the adolescent human being is thus for example approximately 3 1/2 years old, then that means, that he/she has settled him/herself into a quite delicate time period, into the period of the stubbornness. Depending upon the human being can him/herself the defiant age however already earlier adjust, namely already with 3 or 2 1/2 years, whereby however also again the provided upbringing regarding this plays a determining roll. The time period of the defiance age reveals itself thereby, that an until now learn-willing and action-right child thereby begins, to oppose the learning willingness and the action rightness, whereby upbringing difficulties step into appearance. He/She refuses suddenly the obedience, coveted on, when something is said to him, and whines on for the adults unexplainable reasons. This deceives unknowing and impatient parents and family members often for it, in the small, grumbling tyke testing out all possible and impossible educationalistic tricks - however without success. Many then fall prey to the rage or simply the erred view, that they with Gewalt and under all circumstances must break the restive Will of the defiant one. Naturally, the defiance of the small tyke is often able to push the adult's buttons, but just only then, when the adult themselves exhibit hygienical deficiency in their psyche, who regarding this as a rule derived from their own childhood.

When the defiant age of a child is reached, then utilize neither new educationalistic tricks and prescriptions nor Gewalt or the following of 'good intentioned' or drastic measures, that third persons give for the good. The defiance and the intractability of a child in the defiant age are completely natural. It is this a behavior, each child at that time begins, when he/she feels the capability, to him/herself fulfill his/her own Will and to have his/her own Will. Nature-based creates this capability in the child the need, this in the deed to put into action, thus as it also all others to do. For that reason he/she practices this capability - and stubbornly defies.

The defiant age and the therewith connected intractability constitute a natural development stage and a natural development occurrence, that neither with Gewalt nor with 'smart educationalistic tricks and prescriptions' and also not with recommended 'good-intentioned' measures of third persons may be damaged or suppressed.

To the adults the often unexplainable behaviors of a child at the defiant age have also an understandable and natural basis. Also as a rule when the child wants, with his/her behavior, still nothing definite in the form of something purposeful, thus he/she wants nevertheless one thing: namely to exercise the need to want, to fulfill his/her capability of the self-Will. This should warn everyone bringing up (raising) human beings, who let educationalistic over-eagerness, Gewalt or 'recommended measures' prevail. The only right thing to do is this:

One limits him/herself in his/her own wishes for the child and lets them exercise this capability. However in the course of this, one must standby helping and explain to the child the sense as well as the responsibility of the self-Will. And interestingly enough, also when the child is still so young, he/she begins to understand and to act accordingly. The condition however in the course of this is however that, which the child in love and with love is treated and taught, on which he/she then also understandingly responds.

To put one's foot down in the form of a loud scolding can with blatant and ausartender stubbornness ones, which bursts the normal frame, be very much appropriate and works wonders. This conditionally however, that the entire previous upbringing has occurred in a natural and loveful measure and without yelling.

Children in the defiant age are wrongly treated, for example through wrong upbringing such as Gewalt, beating, frequent scolding and yelling, then this brings to the outcoming effect (as also in the other upbringing times), that an obdurateness steps into appearance, which leads to falseness and lies as well as to the acting contrarily in a more conscious defense, and indeed against everything, which is brought near to the defying child from the outside. This behavior entrenches itself then deeply in the child, expands itself out in him/her more and more, in order to one day so far as to seize possession of him/her, that his/her remaining life must live with it - often until in the old age -; unsatisfied, without connecting with fellow-human relationships of healthy form, often filled with anarchistic, terroristic and misanthropic hatred.

The so-called good breeding is one of the most important points in the growing up times of the child. It determines the entire life of the adolescent, in the regard to the life-conduct by the same token as also in the latter self-education. The breeding is able to form with the human beings their habits, therefore however also, to a large extent his/her thoughts and actions in determined directions and forms. Habits and customary practices for instance often come about through upbringing models, which is an example of the upbringing observed and imitated after. Influential for them are also indirectly co-educators of the children, thus however also idols and wishes. Fundamentally beginning at the same time already is the character of those, who contribute to the influencing of the adolescent child; then the kind and wise is of entirely enormous significance, the expression and the transfer of the love of every form through the upbringing (as a rule the parents), then however also the form of the work of the performing ones, the way of talking, the fellow-human relationships, the views etc. Equally of importance are the forms of the consciousness direction, the personal cleanliness of the body, the order in kitchen, living space, bedroom, cellar, grounds, environment and work place etc. of the upbringing persons and the voluntary or involuntary fellow-upbringing persons. Not to forget are the table customs and the formations of the human relationships and human cohabitation, then also the kind of the behavior with rage, trouble, joy, grief and hardship etc.

As a rule the psyche and character hygiene of the human beings of this is drastically underestimated, so therefore also the character psyche hygiene of those, who work for adolescent children and even juveniles by upbringers and influencing significant ones and the models to the adolescents and are all still themselves growing up. Truthly is the fact therefore, that examples and models have an immense and all-outstanding significance for adolescent children and all are still growing up themselves, in the negative as also in the positive sense, so therefore in the evil as in the good. Examples and models as upbringing possible ones cast a monstrous magical power, a true magical charm of influencing and formation of the adolescent human beings. Their effect surpasses by far any written or spoken word, all Gewalt and beating, any scolding, any confinement, any yelling, any rage and any punishment no matter of which form.

A very important point of the psyche hygiene is still that of: THE LAUGH. Children laugh often and gladly, for all possible and impossible reasons. Also when they are still so young, even infants, they like to laugh, merrily and extensively and unweightedly. They truly take every opportunity, in order to let their laugh resound. Very often the adults find no reason to the understand the laugh of the children, and they will be angered or shake the head. Nevertheless the laughter of the children rises from a still healthy psyche hygiene, that the for uncomprehending adults has been lost, which is why he/she can no longer find a reason in a minute and for an unimportant cause to laugh, as this is still the child's own. This is also the primitive reason for it, that the adults dumbly laugh at the children, instead of laughing with them. The adults shows thus therewith his/her inadequacy and the state of his/her hygienic pollutedness of his/her psyche. Equally primitive and of hygienic impurity attesting is the behavior of all adults, who in the presence of the concerned child repeat his/her questions and remarks, only because they are funny. The child standing there is thereby shocked and shamed, because he/she has in each case seriously meant and in trust brought forward his/her questions or remarks.

That however, his/her questions or remarks, in his/her presence, the adults openly and uninhibited elucidate or tell to others etc., which the child in a fine-fluidal wise perceives as a perpetrated breach of trust on him/her. From the view of the child the behavior of the adults is in such things incomprehensible, demeaning, embarrassing and trust-crumbling. Children are human beings like adults, and so they should, must and want to also be treated as such. Children are thus completely and seriously to be taken as adults, and precisely that they in their kind also want. They want not to be laughed at by the adults, but rather they want, should and must be recognized as equivalent human beings. Also in the smallest children is already found his/her expression in the self-worth striving, that worth must be procured, even if many adults in the high age are still not grown up and not matured enough, in order to recognize and acknowledge this fact.”

English translation from the original German text by Patrick McKnight and may contain errors - 21-May-2016