Foremost, an investment policy means a new approach to raising children. Our concern should be not just custodial care for the child nor merely satisfying the parents' desires. We would need to recognize that child rearing is an essential societal function... If we focused childhood (preschool) education on cooperation, self-control, respect for the rights of others, cleanliness, safety, plus appropriate speech and grammar, parents would not object.
A "new approach" which is societal, which it turns out means taking very young children away from the care and instruction of their parents on a regular basis in order to put them under the care and instruction of an institution. But less of the family and more of other stuff is the problem.
If he came on the thread to defend himself I'd guess here he'd say it's better than TV. But this would miss the point: the problem is parental abdication.
Cooperation, etc., is already pretty much what they teach in preschool. Morton doesn't like what we're getting, but he calls for more of the same. But what habits does he expect children to learn if you make their primary source of interaction their "peers", who are as untrained as they are, and at ever earlier ages?
Amen