Ayanna Pressley: “I have always taken issue with the term that children are resilient…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2019

I have always taken issue with the term that children are resilient because I think it infers for people that they get over things.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley critiques the notion of children's resilience in the face of trauma.

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