Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from Ame...
by echelon on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:24AM
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Child mortality saw steep improvements in the 1900s - 1940s all over the world. I didn't think I had to clear myself of this argument.
"Helicopter parents", the desire to call CPS for unattended children - these are new and novel phenomena that are symptoms of society's desire to raise the cost of parenting through marketing, social norms, and peer pressure.
Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from Ame...
by sumeno on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:43AM
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"Helicopter parents" are because of the rise of national media amplifying relatively rare cases of things like child abductions, not a conspiracy by big diaper
"Helicopter parents", the desire to call CPS for unattended children - these are new and novel phenomena that are symptoms of society's desire to raise the cost of parenting through marketing, social norms, and peer pressure.