For over 50 years, Ruth Beaglehole has been a leading voice in the call to end the violence and oppression of younger human beings. In 1999, guided by her conviction that physical and emotional punishment are violations of fundamental human rights, Ruth founded the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting, a nonprofit that held an uncompromising vision of what it means to love children well. For Ruth, parenting with nonviolence was a social justice imperative: teaching adults to treat children with the respect and dignity they deserve was a way to change the “power-over” paradigm.