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Re:When the Culture War Comes For the kids by chachachoney on Saturday September 14, 2019 @10:43AM (#20971087)
If those parents stopped obsessing over their offspring's social and institutional metrics, they'd likely have to confront their own psychological and existential voids.
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Re:When the Culture War Comes For the kids by RhysU on Saturday September 14, 2019 @08:10PM (#20974689)
"[C]onfront[ing] their own psychological and existential voids" is a luxury in which parents should indulge only after making sure their children are all right.

When you have a kid, the first duty is for the kid to be alright. Navel-gazing is only constructive for the kid when it improves the kid's situation.

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Re:When the Culture War Comes For the kids by chachachoney on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:01PM (#20986829)
What's the deal with the use of brackets in [C]onfront[ing]?

I don't disagree with your comment, but I think you're taking something that was said descriptively as if it were prescriptive.

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Re:When the Culture War Comes For the kids by RhysU on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:51PM (#20990089)
Ah, my bad, I'd read prescriptive. The brackets were because I couldn't figure how else to make the quote read sensibly in a sentence.
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