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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Rights and Rosen: Rebuttal to T. C. Wheeler
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 19:45:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 19:45:35 1984
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I claim that T. C. Wheeler is absolutely wrong when he says that
how one rears one's child is none of anybody else's business.  It
most certainly is.  When that child grows up, he will become an
integral part of the world which we all must share.  We will all
feel the effect that he has upon the society.  I'm exaggerating?
Look at such radical groups as the KKK, Moral Majority (OK, radical
and reactionary groups), etc.  Why do they continue?  Why don't they
just die out with their generation?  Because their members raise
their children to believe what they do.  The members of the KKK
actually BELIEVE other races to be inferior.  They cannot understand
why others do not.  Why?  Because they are narrow minded and were
brought up under STRONG parentage.  

To counter Mr. (is it in fact Mr?) Wheeler's examples, my family
also has three children (of which I am the youngest), all of whom
were brought up under parents who let us decide values and opinions
for ourselves.  The oldest (my sister) is now about to enter her
fourth year of medical school.  The middle (my brother) is an
EXCELLENT carpenter.  I'm about to enter Brown University.  So
you see, allowing children the right to an open mind does not
create ''monsters.''  Mr. Wheeler, it's more than 15 years since
my parents started being parents, and the results are in.