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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
There is nothing wrong with exposing one's child to the realities of the world around them when they're ready for them. There is obviously risk involved but, I suppose that comes with most things in life. I just don't believe that those who wait to expose their children to the ills of our society are hurting them. In fact in cases like this family on the documentary I think it is a better choice. I would love to devote the time and energy to my boys that these parents do. I bet if you did a survey of most parents you would find most wishing they had more one on one time with their kids.
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Maybe a compelling arguement would be for a child to actually experience a common adolensence first hand so that they can make proper parental decisions when they have kids of their own instead of just blanking it out with ignorance. After a few generations of home schooled people in one family, and one could imagine that there could be some pretty out of touch parents out there with no practical experience of what risks and the likely probabilities associated with those risk are even present. It's called risk management not risk avoidance. The positives of meeting new and diverse people and making life-long friends and connections at multiple intervals during adolecence is far too great a opportunity to pass up out of fears that heaven forbid Daddy's little girl gets hit on in junior high (Oh how will her precious little undevelped brain handle it!
). It is actually a serious disservice to any child to be denied those opportunities.
Maybe it's not the serious things that home-school parents are worried about avoiding (because afterall it's not
their children they are worried about, it's all the other bad drug dealing, teenage breast feeling children they have to worry about), but rather the moral fringe stuff that overtime chips away and chips away from their upbringing that eventually causes them to question the previously unquestionable. Of course we can't have kids who are supposed to have undeveloped brains running around questioning authority and morality before they are old enough to 'properly deal with the real world' can we?