"Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace."

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we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

— Sarah Orne Jewett