savedforslaughter:

perkwunos:

The nuclear family is a breeding ground for neuroses and abuse. The idea of two people having complete ownership over a child is actually pretty disgusting and dangerous. But the interesting thing is that we don’t trust anyone else for shit. We’ve projected a world of ruthless abusers onto anyone else. To some extent that’s probably true, since we live in the “survival of the fittest” of the bourgeois world. We live in an objective situation that’s going to constantly churn out cruel personalities and people are going to always be around to act like they are in contact with the essence of human nature and not a product of an environment. But child raising that is in fair amounts communal and a shared responsibility has to be the healthier way. That’s certainly the way to get people actually caring about each other.

Parental authority, like all authority. is unjustifiable and leads to abuse of that power. Communal childcare was the norm for thousands of years, but the nuclear family is a product of bourgeois society.