Adults tend to be well equipped and educated enough to handle the circumstances, not to mention they have the freedom to escape a large variety of negative circumstances. Children (at least those 9 and under) often haven't yet learned strategies to cope with their situation and usually do not have the ability to escape as their lives are preplanned.
If you were being bullied in elementary school or an extracurricular activity centre, you are essentially trapped and there is nowhere to hide. If you are being bullied in say a university cafeteria, you have the ability to say "**** this" and walk out. My 9 year old self being forced to go to Scouts where all the Cubs would taunt, ostracize and harass me couldn't escape the camp and find a safe place to escape, but my 16 year old self being taunted during break could just walk out of the school until break was over.
It's not so much "Children are better than adults", but "Adults know how to take care of themselves, so let's put more effort on the children".
IIN that I don't think kids are more important than adults?
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Adults tend to be well equipped and educated enough to handle the circumstances, not to mention they have the freedom to escape a large variety of negative circumstances. Children (at least those 9 and under) often haven't yet learned strategies to cope with their situation and usually do not have the ability to escape as their lives are preplanned.
If you were being bullied in elementary school or an extracurricular activity centre, you are essentially trapped and there is nowhere to hide. If you are being bullied in say a university cafeteria, you have the ability to say "**** this" and walk out. My 9 year old self being forced to go to Scouts where all the Cubs would taunt, ostracize and harass me couldn't escape the camp and find a safe place to escape, but my 16 year old self being taunted during break could just walk out of the school until break was over.
It's not so much "Children are better than adults", but "Adults know how to take care of themselves, so let's put more effort on the children".