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Defending a child's right to belong.

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Josh Wood
May 13, 2025
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"When we create children without mothers or fathers, we don’t free them—we abandon them. This isn’t family-building. It’s commodification. Some haunting thoughts from my colleague, Josh Wood: "Once we create children without biological attachment, and with no human involved in the process of gestation, there will be no one left to fight for them.""
- Them Before Us

In The Republic, Plato envisions a society where the family is abolished. The state, rather than parents, oversees reproduction, deciding who should mate to produce the best offspring. Children are n…


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