Professor: If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others
Umm…What?
Ok, ok. This is for real. Reading to your child “unfairly” advantages your child over children who don’t get read to. You see, your child should be a blithering automaton like the rest of the kids out there.
What’s fair? What’s unfair? Who defines what is fair? This professor who thinks that maybe abolishing the family (I’m not joking) is a keen idea? I don’t think so.
(From The National Review)
In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who “engage in bedtime-stories activities” should definitely at least feel kinda bad about it sometimes: “I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said.
I note this article because people like Mr. Swift always seem to find their way into policy making circles. Think Johnathan Gruber. What one day is just the idiotic ranting of an obscure professor overnight becomes law, with the force of law.
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