Dr. Martin Hash Podcast

Children are incredibly resilient, obviously an evolutionary trait. Children live in an imaginary world because the real world hasn't sunk in yet. Every kid is happy by default; the naivete of childhood is a protective cloak that insulates them from the outside world; except in extreme cases, they doesn't know if they're poor or that their family life is chaos. The traditional family, one where parents are responsible for their children, has worked pretty much the same since the species began. Egalitarian attempts to raise children communally exist, most recently in the former Soviet Union, but those experiments didn't produce remarkably more successful or advanced societies; quite the opposite, in fact. It seems a child can live in a village but it doesn't take a village to raise a child.

Society does, however, have responsibility for children. First & foremost, a society's primary purpose is to perpetuate itself, and that takes children, so anything that promotes children is fundamentally a good thing. Secondly, children eventually become society, so its values & ideals needs to be indoctrinated into them young. Unfortunately, today children are taught to be fearful of everything: climate, viruses, even being called names; how could they not turn into desultory, disgruntled & dissatisfied adults. Who was responsible for that?