[Snuffington]

Odd spin on this. I know something about the previous ideas about the Roman family, and this fits easily within. Sure it may provide some more solid evidence to support it. And it may elevate the importance of certain relationships. But it's definitely not a major change.

Methinks I sense the hand of the "progressives" cooking up something related to this.

[Esther Ruth]

I would suspect someone trying to "build a case" here - definitely, they aren't just giving us a history report, they are up to something - and that would be control of the children - plain and simple. Who gets to decide what the children learn? Mom and dad, uncles, grandparents, the neighbors across the street, Hillary, the leaders at present, or JUST the parents. They have been working on this "case building" for awhile, making parents feel guilt for imposing their private views on their children. Those phrases like, "our children don't belong to us, they belong to the future" etc. Daytime soaps have been preaching this community village stuff for 30 years or so, everyone on the darn soap takes care of the children, they are never with their parents, their moms have remarried 3 or 4 times, have 86 step dads and 92 steps sisters and brothers, all one big global community, and the mom and dad don't seem to believe they have the ultimate say on what happens in that child's life, or they bring it up for a vote at a town meeting or something, sort of communist.