I just read an article online about a new "thing" among twenty-somethings, whatever generation that is. I haven't a clue, and don't really care. The idea is non-romantic child raising. Both married and unmarried couples are bearing and raising children with no romantic association between the "parents." One or the other, or both may not even be the parent.
It is a wonder to me that these "parents" think the children are not adversely affected by not seeing and experiencing a romance between the "parents." This is worse than a child being raised by a television or the Internet, let alone anything/one else doing the raising care. The Greeks have seven words that detail the definition of the one English word, "love," but in this case, the children have no clue of even the Greeks' seven words, let alone our one. At least we who are native to English know there are adverbs and adjectives to further define the root word, but where the root, itself, is denied by the parents, how can they possibly think they define and represent "family?"
Sounds like pure communism to me. Ever read Marx? If not, "family" is a primary target, to be replaced by an equally insufficient and unloving parent, spelled g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t.
This isn't new, after all. This aspect of "parentage" has been around since the Tree of Knowledge.
