And .. Homer Simpson? Fiction, yo.
How are we to know what future-proof values are, and how are we to go about instilling those values in our children?
One problem with children, despite our best intentions, is they tend to go on to create things like Facebook.
And I attest that the Simpson/Huxtable thing is valid. Huxtable (and Ward Cleaver and etc) were a fiction that our culture accepted as truth. Homer is an obvious fiction whose message is "that thing we accepted as truth was a lie." In that respect, Homer Simpson is much more real than Dr. Huxtable or Ward Cleaver or any myth that parents are simply by virtue of having functional reproductive organs competent.
History.
>What makes you think that most have a desire to raise their kids?
Statistics.
> privileged assumptions
I think you've got a bit of hatred for this subject.
>Simpson/Huxtable thing is valid.
Fiction is merely an analog for the truth; in this case, a very minor, small part of the reality of parenting. No, Homer is not a good parent model. His character is more of an allegory for cynical irony than the reality, which is that a vast majority of parents - fathers - care very deeply for their children and want to see them survive whatever the future brings.
Anything less is the very apathetic, solipsism, we've been discussing.
"hatred for this subject"? Sure. I know a lot of people who had shitty parents. I know a pair of brothers who committed suicide because their father molested them. Many of my friends hate their folks. My own are terrific, incidentally. When I say those are privileged assumptions, that's because I have been reminded numerous times that I had a privileged upbringing.
Which, by the way, entailed parents whose life philosophy was hands-off, which further points out how vapid the notion that "parental controls would fix social media" is.
