Bad parents wouldn’t be so much of a problem if children were considered communal, rather than individual, responsibilities.
While I instinctively approve of licenses to parent, when I think on it I wonder if that might be too counter to human nature to ever enforce successfully.
And my deeper feeling is that it’s the “two parents have a kid, so the kid belongs to them” culture that causes a lot of the problems.
Bad parents wouldn’t be so much of a problem if children were considered communal, rather than individual, responsibilities.
While I instinctively approve of licenses to parent, when I think on it I wonder if that might be too counter to human nature to ever enforce successfully.
And my deeper feeling is that it’s the “two parents have a kid, so the kid belongs to them” culture that causes a lot of the problems.