Eric Cordian wrote:

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Jim Byrnes writes:

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Bwaahaha. ROTFLOL! No argument over public schools, but families? Ok, I'll send my eight year old out to fend for himself. Its about time that lazy bum got a job.

You seem to be under the misperception that since society has entrusted you with the care of a member of a class of individuals having special needs, that such individuals have no civil rights as long as you are giving them something.

The rights of your biological offspring do not depend in the least on their working to support themselves. Your legal obligation to provide food, shelter, education, and medical care does not depend in the least upon your getting your own way at their expense 100% of the time, or being allowed to violate their reasonable personal boundaries and limits.

This legal obligation is another form of slavery, then. Somehow the law makes parents slaves to their children.

- Igor.

... slavery only to yourself - who made the choice to have children in the first place? Once you make that choice, you're stuck with it. That's not a penalty, just propagation of species: you accept the responsibility to teach your children what they need to know in order for them to become functional adults, so they may someday do the same. To extend on this 'teaching process', it seems folly to assume that a child will all-of-a-sudden turn into a thinking, reasonable adult on their 18th birthday without a certain degree of critical thinking ability beforehand. - Jim Schaerer