Respecting children
Priscilla Alderson argues that respect for children and young people is needed more than ever before
The austerity cuts, global inequalities, armed conflict, and many other matters that constantly fill the news headlines especially affect children. With new problems looming in 2017, Quaker traditions of respect for children are needed today more than ever. Quakers’ faith in the Divine Light in everyone is confirmed in examples of children’s courage and wisdom. During the 1680s, for example, when the authorities locked up Meeting houses and hauled adult Friends off to prison, children in Bristol, Reading and Cambridge continued to gather for Meeting in the streets, braving taunts and vicious beatings.
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