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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Having the 'state' raise children, would give them all the same opportunities - thereby reducing much of the talent that currently goes to waste in disadvantaged families, when it could be benefitting us all.
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I think we need to get things like the NHS postcode lottery sorted out before we can even think that state-raised children would all get the same opportunites...
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Also, it wouldn't have to be about locking the children away in institutions - they'd belong to the community, rather than a couple of parents. The nuclear family we now have in developed countries is a fairly new phenomenon after all; in the past children had extended communities to help raise them. These days, parents have too much control over their kids (tho' that won't be a popular view either, I imagine  ).
I think people have thought of it before; e.g. Huxley's 'Brave New World' - often misdescribed as a dystopia.
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Isn't that what happens already in kibbutzs and other communes?