it's raising terrible children who will fumble the civilization when they're finally left to their lonesome at age 35. the way to develop strong, capable people is to give them agency, ambition and confidence when they're young; and the only way to build those things is to let them try and fail on their own. children who are never left unattended never have to develop their own sense of how to live, they just defer to the judgment of their parents. and while eventually everyone is freed of their parents, it's really hard for that moment to come after you've already spent 20 years living as an adult who does what he's told.
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