Look, I didn't even actually say I want to abolish the family unit and raise children in communal creches But the thing is the people who try to make a case for responsible, accountable parenting are always the ones who scare the fuck out of me when talking about it
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And that this social trend conservatives hate is ultimately a positive thing Not the specter of "The Welfare coming to grab your kids" but "intimidated" parents steadily surrendering authority to experts and institutions who can do a better job than they can
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If only I could be so confident in our experts and institutions. Some of the experts are pretty great, actually, but they are often not the ones our institutions choose to listen to.
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This is the world's biggest possible consent issue IMO At least in a world where contraception is readily available, to steal a living, breathing, thinking being from the void and force it to exist is inherently a choice that is imposed on that being, by its parents
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It's impossible to ask ahead of time, and by the time that being is an adult it probably won't want to reverse the decision But the least you owe that being for that imposition is to make its well-being your number one priority
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It's not a problem of parents. Parents are as they've always been. It's a problem of parents not having a support structure. Grandparents used to be young and active enough to look after grandchildren for days at a time. Families lived in multigenerational homes.
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There already was a concept of a communal upbringing. We made it go away by working people until they are themselves dependent on their kids.
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