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pbhjpbhj 10 hours ago

Viewing the continuance of our race as only the responsibility of parents is pathological.

Moreover, children are all of our [mid-term] futures too. If education fails, there are no doctors for anyone not ultra-wealthy.

You have to look from the other direction too - children have natural rights and deserve to be extending dignity as humans too.

krapp 10 hours ago | parent [-]

>Viewing the continuance of our race as only the responsibility of parents is pathological.

That seems to be a uniquely American pathology.

Everywhere where else in the world, and in non-white American subcultures, the community taking a hand in raising children is expected. But many Americans seem to consider it socialist and an attack on Christian values.

See Hillary Clinton getting mocked for saying "it takes a village"[0] or BLM being accused of wanting to "destroy the nuclear family" by encouraging community based parenting[1].

[0]https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9608/27/hillary.sp...

[1]https://medium.com/@emailnatesmith/the-blm-statement-on-fami...