• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    we could make parents actually parent their children

    No, you couldn’t, nor could anyone else including your government. If someone had figured out a practical way to just “make” parents into better parents, we would’ve done that by now, for all sorts of reasons (education, crime, …).

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      We used to not expect this much of parents. Children used to be raised by the community (it takes a village to raise a child). They still are in lots of villages around the world. What’s unnatural is the nuclear family and the idea that 2 parents spend all their waking hours split between working and parenting.