I'm more skeptical of the presumption that parents have kids best interests at heary
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
I'm skeptical of the assumption that random strangers and bureaucrats are any more likely to know what's right and good for my future child than I am unless I become an abusive scumbag unable to adequately provide for them.
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
Pretty weird that you bestow some sort of inherent trust on others based solely on their lack of blood relation to a child that you don't afford parents. Why do you think Jimmy down the street knows what's better for my child than I?
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @arthur_affect and
I trust experts. Not random people. You know, that straw man you lit on fire?
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Replying to @mxanthropology @arthur_affect and
So if somebody gets a degree in childcare and social work you think they're inherently better people than a parent without?
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @mxanthropology and
"Better people" on a moral level, not necessarily But to the extent that parenting is a skill, then sure, it's a skill that requires training that people can get better at It's odd that people accept this as a general rule for other skills but put up walls around this one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
This is damaging in many ways, of course, the way this kind of romanticism always is The idea that parenting is a matter of natural instinct, or spiritual moral character, such that the only way to be bad at it is to be some kind of subhuman monster
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
In fact a lot of people arguing for the status quo willingly admit this fact -- "Everyone screws up as a parent, it's a really hard job" -- while casually saying that the damage this does to children is okay and acceptable and that we can't possibly do better than that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
As a practical matter tho, I can’t tell the future and even an expert on child development can be a crappy parent - people will make all kinds of mistakes, life happens, etc. so outside of granting telepathy or clairvoyance what are folks supposed to do?
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I don't think Noah is actually in favor of this bogeyman of the evil bureaucrats either -- exchanging one set of powerful unaccountable adult authorities for another I don't have a policy answer to hand, I just think children should be far more powerful than they currently are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
I hear you and speaking as one who has seen how child services operates, I can say it’s at best a mixed bag and if you are rich and/or white you can be abusive AF and get away with it, whereas if you are poor and/or PoC it’s like they’re itching to take the kids away
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