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Can't solve poor parenting with technology or regulation, though.

• munificent 3y ago
  "Solve" is the entirely wrong verb here. Children are not math problems. The question is whether you can design policies and programs that help children, even children with bad parents, while having downsides small enough that the benefits outweigh them. And, clearly, you can. The history of the US is rife with them: public libraries, public schools, mandatory education, child tax credits, mandatory vaccination, etc. Whether this specific policy is a net win is a separate question that I don't have an opinion on. But the idea that the entire outcome of a person rests and should rest entirely on the shoulders of their parents is deeply flawed and runs counter to almost all of human history.