This article in the Telegraph fills me with abject horror. Am I, I wonder, the only one who finds the idea of the state interfering in family life an intrusion too far?
Margaret Hodge, the children’s minister believes that the state picks up the pieces when parenting goes wrong. Which sounds just so reasonable. However, in a free society, people are allowed to make mistakes and parenting is an area where people learn by doing and they don’t always get it right. But that doesn’t mean that the state does, either. When I see stories like this, I am thankful that I am not a parent.
The government doesn’t like accusations of being a "Nanny State" yet comes out with speeches like this. I’ve said it before;
Nanny State is exactly what it is.
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