“The state doesn’t like the family, because the family is a source of resistance against political power. People are still more loyal to their families than to the state, and that’s why the state dislikes the existence of those loyalties.”
— Miguel Anxo Bastos
truth
At the same time they force those loyalties by making it nearly impossible to be financially independent. Plus they incentive marriage.
Well, if you have one person working and another raising and educating their children, you get to tax one source of income.
If both partners work and therefore need to hire someone to watch their children, you get to tax three sources of income.
Also, if children are kept separate from their parents as much as possible, they form relationships with educators and state institutions rather than relatives, growing up to naturally and effortlessly perpetuate an immoral system of state control of private affairs.
