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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I knew it would be a minority view -  .
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.
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. |
What do you mean by parents having too much control over their kids? In what way? I don't understand this.
Generally speaking, I believe that's part of the problem these days . . . parents don't have
enough control over their kids. Seems the kids have all the control now, and not necessarily in a good way.