If reality were an image, it would be a small, malnourished, beaten, violated, hopeless, poor, devastated, oppressed child. There are many more like this child, sitting in the corners of dirty cities around the world, witnessing all the oppression that has evolved from this reality. This realism is the life of a child being destroyed by the ways of the world. This child, along with countless others, has had his freedom to lead a healthy life stolen by the restrictions of authority. Therefore, the oppression of children is the result of a restrictive authority that limits what the world has to offer adolescents. At a young age, children are generally subservient to the world around them and I have found that there are two specific influences that influence the development of the child's values, social norms and perspectives. The first influence is what the child is taught or forced to practice by the parents' beliefs and perspectives. The second is what a child learns from the world and his life experiences. Unfortunately, children are typically not allowed to practice “juvenileism,” where they live with free spirits and objective minds, because parents impose their own lessons, beliefs, values, rights, mistakes, behaviors, and perspectives on their children's lives. As a result, children are oppressed because the opportunities the world offers them are limited based on their adult values ​​and perspectives. Unlike the others, the oppression of children was ignored. This oppressed group is not a minority in its own right, nor is it controlled by society's opinions. It is not the oppressed victims who can be blamed. In fact, all other groups and societies have belonged to this group. Truly, every human being who has walked...... middle of paper......Collection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry347%23%2Fchild+poverty>.Saslow, Linda. “How do children feel about war?” The New York Times. New York Times Company, February 17, 1991. Web. March 1, 2014. .6.2: 102. Print.Klass, Perri. “Poverty as a childhood disease”. The New York Times. New York Times Company, May 13, 2013. Web. March 1. 2014.