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Reader Lois L. Berry (Voice, Aug. 5) would have school courses in parenting mandated. I do not doubt her sincerity and good intentions, but what principles of parenting should we teach? Yours? Mine? Or choose from a short list: Christian, Judaic, Muslim, atheistic, humanist, Western, Asian, African, liberal, conservative. . . .
Parenting is indeed complex and difficult. There are possibly more failures than successes. But unless you live in a monolithic society, general agreement on the values to be instilled in children is impossible. A compromise, one-size-fits-all curriculum would be the emasculated product of a committee and satisfy no one. Further, the concept of mandating values is paternalistic and abhorrent to a free society.
