Protecting Children
The safety, health and welfare of children is the responsibility of all adults as it was when the adults were children and as it will be when the children become adults.
Fragmenting this responsibility among a variety of caretakers, personal, professional, political, is irresponsible for it provides a range of exculpations and fingerpointing, blame-gaming and stigmatizing, in short: CYA.
CYA may have become so widespread it is unavoidable for most human intercourse based on nationalism, prejudice, ethnicity, race, wealth, what have you. But it is not at all appropriate for meeting the obligations adults have for children no matter their social identity.
Children are wholly dependent on adults from birth to their own child-bearing age. Parents play a dominant role but far from all, other adults are expected to contribute. This is not tribal but natural, a duty inherited by all adults with or without children.
It is cowardly and vile to ignore this full-bore, shared responsibility, indeed is criminal in most societies wherein the misfortune or failure of parenthood requires other adults to intervene, again, all adults not just the designated targets for shifting the punishment.
There no better way to evaluate a people than by assessing their treatment of children. Sounds obvious, maybe, but the coronavirus crisis has put to the test adulthood privileges in protecting itself over their vulnerable charges in a psychosis of experimentation in fear of Mr. Trump.