Further thoughts.
1. Of course, parents have rights which must be respected. For the most part, these are people who have chosen to give birth and commit to sacrifice to raise the child. Society does and should recognize this.
2. Children are people, not property. Therefore, Fox News, they don't 'belong' to anyone, except to society as members, not property.
3. As adults, these children will live in society, therefore, society has some rights to their teaching and socialization as well.
4.. These different facts must be reconciled. Society has not done the best job they could at this. Implicitly, we all know that parental rights are not absolute. People who abuse their child physically have those rights terminated. But we are squeamish about emotional and mental abuse. We need to get over that. It will take a long time and many cases to establish standards for these things, so we need to get started now.
This controversy may be a good place to start.
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