In defense of parents

Contra Aella on chattel childhood Aella has a post where she argues that today's parents don't sufficiently respect the independence of their children: Every culture throughout history has justified the abuse of treating their children as property by arguing this is good for them and good for civilization. Kids need to learn this stuff to be functioning members of society! It’s good to learn discipline! You can’t have kids just sitting around playing video games all day! Not everyone is self-directed autodidacts! Sure, I know that argument.