On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 27, 2012 10:21 AM, "Deepa Mohan" <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Saritha Rai's new fortnightly column in the New York Times online- >> >> http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/when-daycare-slips-into-night-care > > Not that long ago a major controversy broke out in Switzerland when one of > the affected children, now in his retirement years wrote a book detailing > his life. > > <snip /> > > I have no doubt that by Swiss standards the featured Indian parents would be > considered grossly negligent to say the least. >
The same argument is often used in terms of : poor parents are negligent (cannot afford nutritious food) single parents are negligent (shouldnt you be married ) working parents are negligent (reasons above) same-sex parents are negligent (turn kids into homos) etc... fact of the matter is when you are a parent, people give advice on how you should be a better parent whether you want advice or not....in many cases people who have never had kids give you advice on how to be a better parent. concluding negligence is just another form of such advice :-)
