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Originally Posted by Sparrow
It seems to me that a lot of the problems result from failing families - families produce troublesome kids, and families also present the greatest threat to children's wellbeing (as Larkin pointed out - includes swearing).
I'll never live to see it - but I reckon we need a better way to bring up future generations rather than relying on family units to do it.
If the state raised children, we'd have a more equal society with better life-chances for the next generation.
(Although I recognise this is a minority view at the moment.  ) |
My first response to this was that (in the US at least) they'd better repeal the 2nd amendment before they try to get near my kids.
My second was that I wonder where they'd find mothers and fathers (or should we just call them womb donors and sperm donors?) willing to beget/bear a child and then just hand him/her over to the state. Sounds like a solution to population pressure to me.
My third reaction was that we may be headed there - in the US there's been talk of mandatory preschool so that kids are in state-run schools from about the age of 3 on up.
As much as families may struggle to raise kids, I don't see a single government in the world today that I'd trust to do a better job of it. Maybe government efforts should be spent in trying to find ways to support families in doing what they're designed to do.
Children aren't part of an assembly line manufacturing process. No parent is perfect, and certainly many of them are better than others. But kids learn primarily by example - seeing their parents support a family and just live life prepares them for when they, in turn, enter the 'real world'.