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Originally Posted by KSig RC
You're cutting your terminology too broadly.
Your examples are not examples of an 'anti-child society' - instead, they are breakdowns in parenting technique, or rather a shift away from 'traditional' parenting methods. You're assigning negative value to this shift on your own; whether this is actually negative is unclear, and DEFINITELY up for argument far beyond what you've claimed.
Much more important, however, is that you're not addressing the actual issues raised by others. You're essentially strawmanning - because people are less 'personal' or 'intimate' or 'traditional' in parenting, society must be anti-child - when I think that others have pointed out that concessions made by the public at large for children (as well as the tolerance for 'bad' behavior by babies) means that society probably is not 'anti-baby' and may, in fact, be increasing toward the opposite.
Neither point is incorrect, but can you see how they are not directly antithetical (or even interrelated)?
-RC
--In other words, you ARE seeing it precisely because you ARE looking for it . . . selection bias much?
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Your right. My examples have been more about parenting than society. Here are some links to articles that can articulate it better than I can.
http://www.mothering.com/articles/gr..._friendly.html
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/artdetached.shtml
http://www.mothering.com/articles/gr...ty/sweden.html
http://www.childfriendly.org/index.html
I also don't believe that I go out in public looking for anything that may be deemed child unfriendly. I obviously notice such things because when I am out and because my daughter is with me.