At 09:53 AM 9/8/99 +0200, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Regarding abandonment, Cathy asked "how to present the material
>powerfully and strongly without representing the subject as victim,
>vulnerable, weak." My first reaction here is: why shouldn't children in
>this context be represented as victims or vulnerable? Would this
>somehow affect their dignity? If in particular situations in the past
>children actually were victims, then why shouldn't we present them as
>such?
My first reaction exactly, Henk.
I think it distorts it to suggest they made something "good"
of it and survived - or that children being abandoned might
somehow be a "good" thing. Perhaps it's to make us feel
better...
Julienne
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