Children and the community

[The Man]

In Anarchism, I know we strive to kill and burn off Hierarchy. But if a system, in which series of Worker's Councils and Worker's Syndicates are self-managing the community happened, wouldn't that be hierarchal over children that couldn't work?

[Magón]

Why would an Anarchist society regress into an 1800s England/world, with no child labor laws/rules? At least, that's what I'm picturing when you ask this.

Like all children, they need to be children, and being a child includes playing, causing trouble for their parents, and not having to worry about anything past whatever it is they're currently doing.

[NGNM85]

In some cases authority can be legitimate. The difference is that no authority should ever be accepted as being inherently legitimate, it should always be subjected to a burden of proof. When parents tell their kids to do their homework, or eat their vegetables, they are not fascists subjugating their offspring; they are merely being parents.

[Savage]

I suggest a communist society in the vein of 'children of the corn'.

[Gears]

Why would an Anarchist society regress into an 1800s England/world, with no child labor laws/rules? At least, that's what I'm picturing when you ask this.

Like all children, they need to be children, and being a child includes playing, causing trouble for their parents, and not having to worry about anything past whatever it is they're currently doing.


Agreed.

[blake 3:17]

Why would an Anarchist society regress into an 1800s England/world, with no child labor laws/rules? At least, that's what I'm picturing when you ask this.

Would those laws exclude children from productive work? Childhood, for the Left, is way understudied and discussed. What's the magical cut off stage?

Child care and education could be organized much more democratically and should include childrens voices. I would advocate an approach that both gives children more freedom AND more responsibility.

In a world where freedom and equality are a reality, there's are relatively few reasons why the division between the public and private spheres will remain the way they are under capitalism.

[mohamed bouazizi]

As a child my father and mother did not exert real hierachal parenting like grounding me or hitting me, this led me to disrespect them and disrespect myself, I ended up drinking taking drugs thieving and being a immoral person.

Like it or not, children need to be raised with the enforcement of morals by their parents, or risk having to learn through self education later in life, after becoming someone they never wanted to become.

Notice kids with parents who either dont give a heck or ones who are very leniant, usually come off the tracks compared to a kid with a fair but strict parental framework.

But I mean thats just my opinion, I know kids who had leniant parents, some became uncontollable and got into bad things, others turned out great.

Maybe I am just making excuses for my actions.

But overall I feel that parental power over young kids, if fair and non violent is the best way to raise a kid.