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Parents should probably be denied the vote, pretty much for the reasons given by Kipling in his poem that groundlessly limits the argument to females. It's too strong of a bond, you really do start seeing everything else through the one lens. And when you're not careful can confuse these universalizings of selfishness-by-proxy with altruism. Well, sometimes they are - you do become a better person in a lot of ways. But you tend to think you are in various others when you're not. I'm not actually worried about myself; I anticipated enough of the changes to not be outflanked easily. But still regularly am in small ways, insidiously.

And it's the capitol of the making of God, of squinting person into world. You construct the world for them, they comprise it for you. Nonsense and unworkable, yes, but it's the nest, the inside you build out of materials warily collected in a never-more-hostile-seeming outside. Which you nevertheless make overtures to, seek to trust like never before because you need it now. Having a kid is like receiving a cancer diagnosis in terms of stakes-raising. Not true either, you're right - in the mid twenty teens in the places where anyone reading this lives you probably can't starve even if you want to. The parent kit is thus mostly now barbaric. But there it is. The Republican platform is to parenthood as lottery playing is to desiring to escape - errors your condition makes you hopelessly liable to if you lack access to sensible admonitory info.

"All this the world well knows" etc. We're the ultimate venereal disease. Not the kids - everyone loves the kids - but the parents.