It’s one thing to say it’s difficult to parent. It’s very hard to be a parent. It is another entirely to say that non-parents are “privileged”. Using privileged is a total and inaccurate misappropriation of identity politics discourse to weaponize the unpaid work of parenting.
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Here's a framing I greatly prefer ADULTS are obviously and undeniably privileged relative to CHILDREN Because CHILDREN are vulnerable and dependent and had no choice in being so, we are all on the hook for supporting and protecting CHILDREN, with tax dollars at a bare minimum
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But centering the PARENTS and making this about how I personally have to support PARENTS is looking at this all the wrong ways It's a framing that directly and inevitably leads to enabling bad parents
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Of course you can frame it as an obligation to children (or old people for which someone has to care on top of their day job). But in practice, it's a relationship between e.g. work colleagues where those free of caring obligations help out those who have them.
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Also it depends very much on the kind of society where you live. In our country, pensions are pay as you go tax financed, so today's kids are going to pay the pensions of the childless people as well as their parents/grandparents.
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