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**Libertarian Parenting** or '''Libertarian Childrearing '''refers to
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the parenting strategies advocated for by [libertarian
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socialists](Libertarian_Socialism "wikilink") to allow for the creation
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of children who accept freedom and responsibility. It is closely related
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and often overlaps with the ideas of [democratic
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education](Democratic_Education "wikilink").
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## Main Ideas
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The aim of libertarian parenting is to respect and develop the
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individuality of the children. Some of these ideas include:
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- Most parents in society are psychologically damaged people, who have
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built up walls to 'protect' themselves which result in impeding
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their ability to feel freedom, thereby causing unhappiness.
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- The idea that children learn by mimicking their parents - children
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do what their parents do, not as they say. If parents lie to each
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other, scream, fight and so on, then the child will probably do so
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as well. Children’s behaviour does not come out thin air, they are a
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product of the environment they are brought up in (partly by,
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initially at least, copying the parent).
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- Over the course of a few generations the number of progressive
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parents will continue to grow and raise ever freer children, who in
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turn will become even more progressive parents themselves, thus
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gradually changing mass psychology in a libertarian direction.
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## Criticism
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## Notable Theorists
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- [Alfie Kohn](Alfie_Kohn "wikilink")
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- [Emma Goldman](Emma_Goldman "wikilink")
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- [Max Stirner](Max_Stirner "wikilink")
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- [Mikhail Bakunin](Mikhail_Bakunin "wikilink")
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- [Wilhelm Reich](Wilhelm_Reich "wikilink") |