Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents

[Team Sergeant]

MSNBC needs to trade names with CNN so we can call them what they are, Communist News Network..... Well said Comrade Melissa Harris-Perry.
It's hard for me to believe people actually watch that channel. But then again some here actually read the NYT's.

Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents
By Hollie McKay

Published April 09, 2013

FoxNews.com
LOS ANGELES – Parents and media critics were aghast after a host for MSNBC called for collective care of a community's children instead of parents taking care of their kids themselves.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recorded a commercial for the network in which she stated that children do not belong to their parents, but are instead the responsibility of the members of their community.

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children,” she says in a spot for the network’s “Lean Forward” campaign. “So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Harris-Perry’s views ignited a firestorm of anger and disbelief.


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[MR2]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

But then again some here actually read the NYT's.

Mostly birds I suspect...

[Lan]

I'll hand my kids over to the 'community' as soon as I hand my guns over to it.

My father in law watches MSNBC all day long so the conversations we have at family events are interesting to put it nicely.

[Dusty]

That women looks half Klingon. Is that how Klingons raise their young?

[ddoering]

Where do I drop them off at?

[PRB]

Originally Posted by Dusty

That women looks half Klingon. Is that how Klingons raise their young?

Lol, yeah...weird look. High maint with tude.

[Team Sergeant]

It has everything to do with the Progressives (socialists) not taking "personal responsibility" for their actions.

The Teleprompter Reader of the United States of America was brought up this way was he not?

Benghazi anyone?

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by DocIllinois

It is a community's responsibility to provide a reinforcement of the behaviors that should be instilled at home.

I'd go further and say that the community doesn't have to necessarily agree with that instilled at home, but they must respect it and not knowingly attempt to subvert it. I appreciate Richard's reference to a bygone time, and lived that somewhat 'Leave It to Beaver' experience growing up as well; neighborhood, a pretty neat thing. In this case, however, I think the MSNBC person articulated herself as intended.

[BigJimCalhoun]

Another reason we home-skool our son.

[Dozer523]

We "own" our children?
I own a lot of things but I don't own people.
I use a lot of things too; as well as profit from some, too.
God blessed me with my children, gave them to me to love and raise, cherish and train.
We "owe" our children. We owe them our best, our honesty, our trust. We owe them the best life training we can provide them (even when it's F-ing piano lesson on Opening Day). When we can't do it ourselves we look to the community in ever widening circles until our God given responsibilities. We accept that sometimes our best and even the community's best isn't going to be enough and we will stand before God and be held responsible. Fortunately, God is loving and forgiving.

In Afghanistan, children are referred ro as gifts of God even in the most wretched of circumstances. I always kept a little hope for the Afghans because of this.

I'm pretty sure the ownership comment was just the natural progression of all things PS to eventually come circle back to blame someone and ascribe it to a defect of philosophy and character. YMMV,MOO.