As a factual matter, children belong more to the State than their parents.
But parents still have the ability to wrest control of their own children from the State.
But that would mean giving up free babysitting.
How much is free babysitting really worth?
But parents still have the ability to wrest control of their own children from the State.
But that would mean giving up free babysitting.
How much is free babysitting really worth?
You are correct. Money aside (meaning involuntary extractions through taxation), the price one pays for such government babysitting - which morphs into something more like incarceration by the time a child is a teenager - is that the child does belong to the state. The "Prussian model" was as warm and fuzzy as most things Prussian.
Mr. niteowl77