Indeed, I had a problem with the fact that he meaning of “low status” is fuzzy (partly because we rarely speak of such things openly). Your phrasing clears things up, thanks.
I’d say that there are many kinds of relationships between people (employee, customer, parent, friend, lover, co-worker, …), and we are hard-wired to pay attention to how the relationship reflects on the relative status of those involved.
But the relationships where one side seems “fundamentally worth less” than the other are just a subset of status relationships. So the idea that “considering children as lower-status implies that they are fundamentally woth less” looks wrong to me.
Indeed, I had a problem with the fact that he meaning of “low status” is fuzzy (partly because we rarely speak of such things openly). Your phrasing clears things up, thanks.
I’d say that there are many kinds of relationships between people (employee, customer, parent, friend, lover, co-worker, …), and we are hard-wired to pay attention to how the relationship reflects on the relative status of those involved.
But the relationships where one side seems “fundamentally worth less” than the other are just a subset of status relationships. So the idea that “considering children as lower-status implies that they are fundamentally woth less” looks wrong to me.