[SCA-AE] Attitudes to children in the SCA

[David Friedman]

I said "more likely than the random SCA member." Obviously there are 
lots of people in such positions who don't have the attitude I 
describe. To take a different example, Alys Katherine ran the 
University, and did it very well, for many years, and I would never 
describe her as viewing children that way.

>Your Grace
>
>I am in agreement with most of what you have written but I must take 
>exception to the last paragraph. You have known my husband, Baron 
>William for many years, he is currently the seneschal of AEthelmearc. 
>He is highly supportive of allowing and encouraging the youth and 
>teens of the Society to be as fully active in our activities as 
>possible.
>Irene
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:46 PM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> 
>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  I may be wrong, but it is my impression that the people who run
>>  things--kingdom seneschals, Pennsic staff, and others involved in
>>  time intensive sorts of administrative work--are more likely than the
>>  random SCA member to be in my first category, to view children as a
>>  nuisance to be minimized rather than a resource and an opportunity.
>>  One possible reason is that those jobs require a commitment of time
>>  and energy that, while hard for anyone, is especially hard for a
>>  parent, especially a parent of small children, to make. Hence I
>>  suspect--I have no data--that those positions are more likely than
>>  one would expect from random chance to be filled by people who do not
>>  have children.
>>  --
>>  David/Cariadoc
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