Child Liberation 2: Property Rights

Who owns a child?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• property
• self
• ownership
• individualism
• youth
• rights
• children
• libertarian
• anarchy
• anarchocapitalism
• anarchist

[thexjib]

I think you make a good case that a child should not be the slave of their parents or society. But I think you are going on a wild and incoherent tangent."a child owns his own life" does not imply that they should have total freedom without input or discipline. As much as a parent limits a child's freedom so a child limits the liberty of a parent. The rules are different because a child is a dependant.

[aaron0883]

I do not think I fully understand you, but we might agree. I would love to hear your input on the rest of my videos.  I will expand on what I believe the child parent relationship should be. I believe that a parent should set boundaries (in a non-coercive, and empathetic sense) and has great input in a child's life.

[BWF89]

In a free market anarchist society the private defense agencies (PDAs) or neutral arbitrators would ultimately decide what the "mix" was. If the child thought he was being mistreated he could take his case to an arbitrator. The PDAs would probably not want the reputation for protecting abusive parents. They could try to get the parents to give up the child by threatening to not provide protective services and "black listing" them so other PDAs wouldn't want to provide them with protection.

[aaron0883]

If PDAs(or DROs) decide what the mix is than the PDA owns the child. This is just a new government. I am a huge advocate of the DRO system, but emphatically reject that they have a say in this at all.

[egodeosum]

the taxi driver can't throw me out halfway through to death valley, but he stop me from getting out myself. what right does a parent have to forcefully remove a toddler who has wandered into a highway

[erracht]

Mayeako: although parents have authority over their children, NO, legally, there is no law saying that children are the property of their parents. Shezmu: the mother doesn't own the child because, although the child was "created" by the mother's cells, the child is a new human being with his/her own mind, feelings, etc. It's really quite simple.

[maeyako]

Legally the child IS the parent's property with a few exceptions on treatment of property it's the same with animals, animals are alive but can be property too. Actually the child is not a thing, it is a human being with his owns thoughts and feelings, emotions and opinions.

[l1berty53000]

*Excellent* vid. Summarises so much.

[Shezmu]

Perhaps I'm up over-complicating things, but from a scientific standpoint I have trouble understanding why mother doesn't own the child at birth since the child is 100 percent made up of the mother's cells and doesn't get his/her cells until several years afterwards. Also, not to call you sexist, but I notice how when describing child property rights, you said his and not his/her/s. :9

[Shezmu]

Or what they could just put the damages on the kid's "tab". Kinda like what the government does now, except minus the minus the guns of course. =P

[Shezmu]

except they'd have to decide for sake of figuring out who's responsible in civil cases. Otherwise, how would they calculate fault?

[jcastillo81]

Yes, I was agreeing with you. :) Governments exist based on fear and coercion, thus, they fail.

[objectivist]

Governments exist traditional to protect individual rights and private property. But a quick look at history shows us that they don't do a very good job of it, and eventually destroy the people they were once meant to protect.

Individuals who are well armed could do a better job of protecting property than any government could.

[jcastillo81]

Aren't all societies that have a government based on fear? Governments exist because people are afraid of what their neighbor might do.