If I ever adopt a child (I'm not having my own), I think I'll just tell half-truths until I think they're old enough to handle it. Not outright lies, but just with-holding the nastier bits until I think they can take it.
On certain things (like politics or religion) I'd want them to learn for themselves and come to their own conclusions
On certain things (like politics or religion) I'd want them to learn for themselves and come to their own conclusions
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
