A reminder about human agency and self reliance

There has been some noise and distress in social media circles with the recent advertisement run by MSNBC regarding 'who should be responsible for raising children.'  Here is the video:This academic/pundit has since walked back some of her comments, stating that people just didn't understand the nuanced nature of what she was saying about 'collective' efforts in raising children.I suppose that if she wanted her message to be that we need to 'build a world together' that she should have said that in the original message instead of a bizarre statement that we need to 'break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents.'   Most parents I have spoken to about this weren't impressed with being informed that they just weren't nuanced enough to  understand the original message.This is an issue that directly relates to therapy services for children because we are at a point in time where it is becoming increasingly evident that we don't have resources to support all of the social programs that (as a society) we want to support.  People have values to provide social safety nets, but all the recent posts about the early intervention program in NY State should provide ample evidence that the government just can't support what it has promised.People don't seem to like that.  I have seen anger and lots of blame being tossed about - and none of it seems to be particularly constructive.Very liberal voices, represented by this MSNBC pundit,...
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