The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.
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It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
Governments are not always right.
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.
There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.