Azelma wrote:
How much can you know about parenting unless you've actually been one?
Who knows more about any subject? The person who sits and reads books about it all day, or the person who is actually DOING it (and maybe read up a bit about it)?
The guy who looks at it more objectively.
Like I said, if being a parent meant you understood it, parents, in all times and places and certainly the here and now would do a lot better job than they do.
Hundreds of millions of parents do a terrible job of raising their children and are none the wiser for their mistakes. Or do you disagree with that assessment, Azelma? You - would you second-guess your own mother?
There's, what, two billion parents on earth? I'm prepared to say a good many of them are pretty inept, and I don't think they became any more competent or understanding when they knocked someone up.
Azelma wrote:
Think about a surgeon. Who would you rather have operating on you? A man who has never actual performed surgery, but can recite every book he has read on the subject of how the surgery should go.....or a man who has performed dozens upon dozens of successful surgeries?
False analogy; parenting is a fundamental of human existence, surgery is a technical skill.
By your logic, only politicians should be allowed to vote for Presidents. Do you agree?
