[Chancellor]

Quote by: Alive Actually, assume was a bad word. I am assuming nothing. You asserted that parents should have absolute power over their children. That logically implies that parents should be able to abuse their child: Torture, molest, rape, kill; all of those fall under what you said. My "assume" was only placed there because I am not sure you fully believe what you yourself said. Do you?

I said exactly and only what I said and meant exactly and only what I said. But yes, I do believe that parental authority over their children is absolute. Don't give me any of this "logically implies" crap! I'm sick of people reading things into my posts. In case you didn't get it the first time, I said exactly and only what I said and meant exactly and only what I said. If you're going to disagree with me then I expect you to disagree with what I posted and not your interpretations of it.

Let's go with what I said above. Should parents be able to rape their children? Should they be able to kill them?

See above. In the Law of Moses it was commanded that rebellious children be stoned to death. I'm not advocating either the practice of stoning or the execution of children but I am trying to show you that at least one society considered it appropriate to kill their children under certain circumstances. As for raping children, any parent that would even think of having sex with his or her children is perverted.

Perhaps not in some cases. But honestly, I know people who have studied child abuse in great detail, and I can tell you that very often parental control and welfare of children are very much contrary to one another!

Did these people work for the government or for some leftist secular university?

No, I am proposing that the state ensures a reasonable standard of living for all children under its jurisdiction.

Why is it the State's responsibility to ensure a "reasonable standard of living"?

And that parents who continually abuse their ability to have children without ability to care for them be prevented from further abusing that capability.

What constitutes "abuse"? I consider it abuse for a school district to tell parents that they must medicate their children with Ritalin and other such drugs.