How do Comrades feel about communal child raising?What forms do you think should take place?Should biological parents be given any oversight into how a child is raised?
I myself am quite torn on the issue and wonder how other feel about it.On the one hand I was raised by shit parents who fucked me up,dad is a fascist who tried to induct me for years and my mum left his fashie arse years ago,although she never loved me anyways and always emotionally abused me :'(.So I know what having shitty parents is,and feel that the other adults in my life are the ones who gave me love and life lessons so I can see how this would be a beneficial system that in a socialist society would give a greater sense of community over family units and would instil the local values and promote social cohesion.
On the other hand,I've always wanted to be a dad,to raise a kid teach them about the world and try to make them into a good person who makes the world a better place.I'm a sappy cunt I know.but would a social child raising method alienate parents as just another adult who guides children rather than as a close bond?
And how do we get a system in which people teach kids?do we have everybody invest time into each local child and teach them skills and life lessons as a singular parent would?what about people who don't want to raise kids,or anything to do with them at all,should it be an obligation?
I agree with it, because it teaches kids about the reality that they are not some special snowflake.
Also the whole daddy-son emotional connection isnt healthy because it isnt something the son chooses, you should choose who you want to be emotionally connected with, not brainlessly connect with anyone of similar blood, color, nationality.
Also children are incredibly hard to raise, which makes the current system quite disgusting when most of the parents are completely incompetent and illiterate when it comes to child psychology, so a system raising them that is professional is also superior in that regard
Plus they are taught common knowledge instead of having the parent trying to force his autistic beliefs on the kid instead of letting the kid create its own beliefs based on observation of reality because they dont want a kid, they want an extension of themselves.
Nathaniel Myers
this is a very good point,parenting is an imposed hierarchy and kids are little more than their parent property
Elijah Rogers
I think its a wonderful idea and support it wholeheartedly. I would be so much more free if I wasnt restricted by spookmasters growing up
Luke Hughes
Relegating child rearing to two, much less one, parent is ridiculous. It's exhausting in all sorts of ways and doesn't produce very good results even under optimal circumstances.
There's no reason children would have to be forcefully separated from their parents, but there's no reason they should be forced to stay if they're being mistreated. I don't think it's unreasonable to let children choose who they live with, either.
Unless you mean, like, formal education, teaching and learning happens naturally. Children watch and learn all the time and there are several early stages of development where this behavior is especially prominent. Assuming we're living under socialism/communism or are progressing towards either, adults can and should include children in whatever tasks or activities that would be beneficial to learn–household chores, craftsmanship, art, music etc–when at an appropriate age.
You could potentially talk to your parents or grandparents about being communally raised. Before the economy scattered everyone to the wind, families used to live much closer together and would help relatives with child care duties and other such domestic things. My father spent much of his early life growing up with aunts and uncles when his parents were busy with overtime at the factory or whatever.
I think the only time someone should be obligated to raise or otherwise take care of a child is if the child is in imminent danger or is being abused by their current caregiver. But in everyday regular child rearing let those who want to do it and those who don't do something else.
Levi Walker
I think the concept of having the whole village raising a child is a good one. One of the unfortunate consequences of social atomisation is that people no longer feel able to step in to correct disruptive children. But I don't see how this sort of social change can be engineered from above without seriously alienating and upsetting parents.
Of course. Can you imagine having your children taken from you? Fucking with family life is a terrible idea.
Isaiah Adams
like a rotating apprenticeship style thing? each day you go to a different workplace and learn,I like it.specialisation will be optional nd we could always diversify a similar idea to adults who wish to learn new skills
Jordan Bennett
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Jose Nelson
see morally and at a base animistic level I get you but as other posters have argued the familial bond is self imposed and often leads to the enforcement of hierarchical structures,the familial unit is seen as a separate entity from society as a whole where you comrade is your brother as much as your technical kin are and a lot of people are just absolute dog shit parents who fuck up kids because they were raised by shit parents.However it is a natural animistic instinct to want to protect our children,but we should expand this to all children rather than just ones own.Blood ties are a spook
