Comment by ggg9990
7 years ago
A university degree costs much more to provide than one pays for it, so she is throwing a commons resource down the drain. I don't think it's implementable, but I'd support a fine for dropping out of the workforce that makes stay-at-home moms and dads with advanced education have to pay back the full cost of their education.
Children are a resource that creates our future. It would be super nice if society stopped acting like investing in our children is a waste of resources while wondering why the world is going to hell.
Investing in children isn't a waste but getting a graduate degree to do it is.
I homeschooled my 2xe sons. I served as Director of Community Life for the TAG Project for a time. This was support for my ability to homeschool my kids in a situation where no school, public or private, was qualified to adequately accommodate them at both ends of the spectrum at the same time, which was what they needed. My oldest has two conditions which can each lead to a neurotic relationship to food severe enough to require in patient intervention. He has a healthy relationship to food because of my approach to handling his issues.
There are an awful lot of things that can go wrong in a child's life that can potentially lead to a need for enormous resources at state expense from medical to mental health to behavioral, which can go very differently if there is a sufficiently knowledgeable full time parent to handle it before it goes so very wrong.
You are in error. More education is not wasted on raising kids. Your opinion sounds incredibly ignorant to me.
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So, ideally children should be taught about life and how the world works, helped with homework, and/or home-schooled by people with little to no formal postsecondary education?
Seriously?