Family

Marx has some really good ideas, but it was brought up during class that he wanted children to be raised not by their families but by people who are trained to raise children. The thought of it is actually kind of frightening, even though in some aspects it makes sense. If children are reared by professionals, then we can be confident that they will be well-disciplined and well-behaved, but imagine the pain involved in taking a child away from its mother.

Family is such an important aspect of society and Marx’s idea would completely destroy it. Individuality would be at a much greater risk as well because the children are all raised by the same people. With different parents, children learn different things in different ways, which creates different world views and opinions that vary from each child to the next. I think it’s very important to maintain the family unit, but in order to secure discipline and behavior, maybe future parents should be required to take classes in child-raising.