Parents have a responsibility to insure that their children are under continual surveillance by appropriate authorities. It would be best if children were continually under state surveillance, but the vestiges of the “traditional”, bourgeois family are still sufficiently strong to prevent this. The state has interest in such matters for two reasons. First, by making parenthood more difficult, the state accelerates the decay of the bourgeois family. Second, it conditions children to their adult future of continuous surveillance by the state.
It’s either that or Americans tend to be insanely fearful of remote probabilities. Maybe both.
Well said.