Originally posted by Sake
Should wannabe parents do exam in childcare?
There are so many people on the planet who have a pretty hidden live. Most of the abuse happens behind closed doors. How to get this in the open? And who needs to take care? Society has chosen not to pay for this all.
The problem goes much deeper than the observable symptoms. While it's absolutely essential not to allow more children to suffer, any effort to prevent that will be completely and utterly unsuccessful, unless it's based on a scientific understanding of the underlying causal mechanisms. We must redesign society itself to support preventive measures through a common deeper understanding, rather than constantly dealing with the symptoms through legislation and force. There's no end to child abuse, or any other violent, aberrant human behaviour, until we create a society that puts the welfare of all human beings, in all aspects of being human, before anything else.
As for the immediate problem of parents not being able to raise their children in a prosperous, intellectually challenging, emotionally inspiring, socially relaxed and educational environment (without even the realisation that maybe bringing more children to the world is not the answer), we must not make the problem worse through yet more legislation and state abuse (which clearly has no effect), but through education and friendly efforts of support for those who's trying to change.
I'm not writing this in a disgusting Disney-style sense, but in basic empathy for all people, realising that we're all victims of our own life experiences, and that our own ability to deal with them in a constructive, positive manner depends almost entirely on our given cultural influences.