I'm waiting for Michael Jackson to respond to that last one.

He's busy in the fairground he built in his backgarden...


How was he found not guilty?

OK, come on, you know what I mean! For parents. Sheesh.

Isn't the main job of parents to teach the spawn to survive on their own?
Unlike pets you know you're going to take care of for the rest of their life.

That depends of your political affiliation, xob

I like to think that human life is about more than just survival.

Any idiot can teach a kid how to survive on his own. Neglect does that, too.

I'd prefer that my kids learn to thrive on their own. And learn to find happiness, build healthy relationships, and contribute to society in a positive way.

Of course, I also don't refer to them as "spawn." Perhaps therein lies the difference.

Human infants are not mentally or physically equipped to survive on their own... they need to develop for several years first.

I used spawn because I wasn't limiting my remark to humans.
You can feel all superior, and touchy~feely~lovey~dovey about your kids, but the fact remains you are an animal, and my remark applies to ALL animals. :p

You didn't really make a remark, you just asked a question... but are you trying to suggest that no animal learned to survive on their own before the invention of spare rooms and cribs? Or than other animals generally sleep separate from their young(the ones that nurture them at all obviously)? And that that teaches them to survive?

Spawn. great comic. shitty movie. probably not an accurate appellation for mammalian offspring, either.

We all raise our children in our own way. Personally, I felt/feel fine about sleeping with my own babies and small children, but I like older children to have their own beds.

I'm saying human parents, like all animals, are obligated to teach their offspring to survive. Anything beyond that is for piece of mind, that they've done the best they could, for the kid's future.

Well yea, anything beyond survival for anyone is for piece of mind... aka our day to day lives, who we are.

Sure, humans get into all that emotional stuff, along with the basic duty.
Of course for humans, basic survival is more complicated, too.
I can't see a Mother Moose telling her twins;
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim, da do da do... ;)

And this goes along with the original point of the thread, how? :D

It doesn't - this is called thread drift.