4min chapter

Behind the Bastards cover image

Part Two: The Child Prisons of Texas

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Are You Fucked Up? Yeah. Yeah. And You Should Live on a Damn Street, Man?

Early advocates of the concept of a childhood, these early like people who are supporting the idea that there should be restrictions on what we can make kids do, they're generally called child savers. And it's from them in this advocacy in kind of the late 1800s that we get stuff like age of consent laws, child labor bands and compulsory education. But these positive moves occur along more muddled developments too, because these women are also responsible. These activists are also responsible for youth curfews, the idea that like, well, we shouldn't let kids out at night sometimes and they should be punished if they are out at night. So again, a lot going on here, you

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode