I'm pretty sure that's a badly worded way of saying that you shouldn't aim to take care of ONLY your kid...
And as to the second one, I don't see how it's a bad thing to say that people have the right to be in acceptable living conditions?
I believe that parenting is just a million ways to screw up your kid. I don't need that responsibility for other kids. I sure don't want other people, like Mrs Harris-Perry here, trying to take care of my kids.
I live in an age where they are trying to tell me competition is bad, shelter them from everything, even peanuts (OH NOES!!!), and the slightest hint of bullying should be attacked with police force. Call me crazy, but I do not believe the best way to send my child out into the world is by not having her prepared for reality and conflict. The best way to prepare our children is to send them out with no experience? BS.
Look, my wife and I can't always agree on what's best. When others get into the mix my daughter thinks the bad S-word is Stupid. Do you know how hard it is to explain to her that there are stupid people, like the person who told her that there weren't? She is in daycare and one day a week preschool for a three-year-old and I'm already butting heads with these people. Why should I let them have any more say?
Add in that
there are studies showing that a stable family (often two-parent,, but not necessarily) home has better measurable success results than single-parent/unstable family homes and that parent involvement is huge and I refuse to believe anything is more important to my daughter's development and success than me.
As for the second part; producers and achieves deserve more than just a little more (I wonder what her house looks like). And while she may like to talk about a bare minimum standard she forgets to mention that every time we do raise it they look at it and say it is still bare minimum. Yes, the poorest people are always the poorest people. Raise the minimum all you want and it will still be the minimum. What she also forget to mention is that the minimum must be given and that can only be done by taking from all the others.
I agree with everything she says, except the inference about it having anything to do with the government. I think children are better raised when the community as a whole takes an interest in it's children. The ultimate responsibility lies with the parents of course, but everyone close to that child can and should play a role in their upbringing. As a community based idea it's wonderful. If it has anything to do with the government it'll be a disaster.
Sorry, but this community parenting idea really caught on with the millenials and all they created was a narcissism epidemic as large as the obesity epidemic.
http://health.usnews.com/health-new...pidemic-why-there-are-so-many-narcissists-now
No thank you. My child, my raising.
