The only way to tackle the problem that I can see is to raise your own children in the best way you see fit, and hope that others of like mind will join you, learn from each other etc. — Pseudonym
I parent in a very different way to the rest of my society, in fact some of my parenting choices (like not sending my children to school) are so different that they're illegal in some countries and against the European Convention on Human Rights. The last thing I'd want is for the government, or some authority to tell me how to do it. — Pseudonym
You presume the nuclear family. What 'ought' to happen is a much more collaborative child-rearing, shared between siblings as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and the older kids learning to look after the younger ones, and so on. What is wrong is that one can reach puberty and start a family with no experience of caring for children or anyone else. — unenlightened
Unfortunately when one talks of standards and qualifications one is starting from the worst possible place, that of the mechanisation of childhood. — unenlightened
Everyone thinks their child will be the ones to achieve happiness on all levels of human endeavors when, in reality, most people reach a mediocre life at best.. — schopenhauer1
Maybe 15% of the heterosexual population in the world are just too fucked up and would be well advised to not marry and not have children. — Bitter Crank
Those who would make good spouses and excellent parents should be given financial encouragement. — Bitter Crank
Some sentences, hell - some paragraphs - in this post were not 100% serious. — Bitter Crank
This non-intervention, hands-off approach to parenting exists because children are treated as aesthetic objects of the parents' ideals. — darthbarracuda
I have no interest in helping others raise their children, personally. Chalk it up to my personal psychology, moral beliefs, or whatever: I do not enjoy being around children. From my perspective the nuclear family hides the child because it fundamentally was a mistake to have a child in the first place. — darthbarracuda
What bothers me about the article though (and many about population growth) is that it focuses on the idea of labor shortages, as if future children are a future resource to be culled and grown as a crop to be used as the next workers. Governments hope that people's individual attitudes are positive about children so they can have more economic output in their GDP and economic indicators — schopenhauer1
What methods of parenting do you use that are different than others? — darthbarracuda
The tyrannical aspect of this comes in the form of an oppressive guilt that the progeny experiences. Paradoxically, the act of parenting is a selfish act of sacrifice. The parent sacrifices a great deal, perhaps even everything, for the sake of their child, and the child feels obligated to return this reciprocity, regardless of their actual appreciation. — darthbarracuda
Being the New York Times — schopenhauer1
government deincentivizes having children — schopenhauer1
And if you think asking for evidence to back up a claim and pointing out that science is not immune to paradigms, — Pseudonym
A joke ribbing the NYT's biases: The world is going to end tomorrow.
Wall street Journal's headline: World ends tomorrow; markets will be closed.
New York Times' headline: World ends tomorrow; women and minorities will be disproportionately affected. — Bitter Crank
Personally, I would think that raising children would be a better job than a lot of the dull work that people end up doing in offices, never mind factories or farms. It's a choice I don't have to consider. — Bitter Crank
I think it's pretty stupid to ask for evidence and then, upon being told the evidence, questions all science and psychology, not just one study or one aspect, but the totality of it. — NKBJ
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