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What matters is what YOU do, and what your children are allowed to do. What matters, is that if you let your children play outside alone and unsupervised, tomor
by watt 9y ago
What matters is what YOU do, and what your children are allowed to do. What matters, is that if you let your children play outside alone and unsupervised, tomorrow they will be taken away by CPS or equivalent protective services organization of your country[1].
([1] In Germany - Jugendamt, though I find Germans are surprisingly good with allowing the children autonomy they need. Getting a call from Jugendamt however is really really scary. It's quite awful how these agencies are used as a blunt baton against the very families they are supposed(?) to protect and help.)
- pwaai 9y agoI saw a tv show comparing UK and German family, life from BBC. I don't know how accurate or biased that production was but from an outsider, I marveled at the amount of infrastructure built around supporting traditional Germany families. For instance, women who marry are incentivized to stay at home and take care of the children and home. Similarly, kindergartens spend time outside away from books and a long career of state sponsored rote memorizers. Even more fascinating is they don't seem to force school on people who aren't interested in it, instead providing stable and secure trade jobs which you will master in some apprenticeship...backed by monopolies built from the ashes of WW2, dominating global markets....trickledown effect that actually works. of course....my view will never fully reflect the realities of an average German living in Germany....I'm basing it off on that BBC show anyhow so I expect to be wrong in many areas.... but I still admire the German system as described, not sure how well it's implemented....
- itsthejb 9y agoThey also have one of the lowest birth rates in Europe. Although apparently it increased a little recently...