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The child as a market commodity

  In our society, single people without children are increasingly viewed less favorably, even though creating an "ideal-typical" family (partners plus a child) is supposed to be a matter of personal freedom and right, not a duty. In many societies (including the USA), unemployed single people lack social protection, or may even remain unemployed precisely because they are single and/or childless. Yet, nowhere is it officially stated that marriage and parenthood are required criteria for employment. An offspring—or child—is essentially a genetic blend of their biological parents and a form of continuation of their lives; this, in turn, is fundamentally a continuation of their genetic material, thereby ensuring the persistence of that material. Of course, such a conceptualization sounds very dry, if not downright brutal. Since parents care for a child during their formative years, children or offspring are expected to care for their parents in times of incapacity and/or old age...
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Otrok kot tržno blago

Samske osebe brez otrok so v naši družbi čedalje manj zaželena, čeprav naj bi bilo ustvarjanje idealno tipske  družine (partnerja+otrok)  osebna svoboda in pravica, ne pa dolžnost. V prenekateri družbi (tudi ZDA) samske brezposelne osebe niso socialno zaščitene ali pa so celo zaradi samskosti in/ali ker nimajo potomcev brezposelni. Nikjer pa ni uradno navedeno, da je zahtevani kriterij za zaposlitev poročenost in materinstvo ali očetovstvo. Potomec ali otrok je v bistvu genetska mešanica svojih bioloških staršev in neke vrste nadaljevanje njihovega življenja, ki je spet v bistvu nadaljevanje njihovega genetskega materiala in na ta način tudi obstoj njihovega genetskega materiala. Seveda zveni takšno pojmovanje zelo suhoparno, če ne kar brutalno. Ker starši otroka oskrbujejo v fazi odraščanja, naj bi otroci ali potomci oskrbovali svoje starše ob njihovi nezmožnosti in/ali starosti.  In tudi to naj bi bil razlog, da so se večinoma ljudje odločali za potomce. Takšne so ideal...
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Equal yet different: a social perspective

 In the European Union—including Slovenia—tempers are flaring, and even hostility is emerging, toward the unemployed, who are perceived as receiving social assistance without working. Naturally, this overlooks the fact that social assistance covers only basic living expenses—costs that are minimal and lower than standard wages. When funds run low and general poverty rises, a scapegoat must be found; inevitably, social benefits become that target. Instead of creating paid jobs, the focus is shifting toward "social jobs"—or making social assistance conditional upon performing socially useful work—while likely reducing the number of regular employees in the civil service and state institutions. In Slovenia, "socially useful work" is already defined in the Criminal Code as unpaid compensatory labor (one day of imprisonment equates to two hours of socially useful work) used to settle a prison sentence and/or a fine (see previous article: https://vsakodnevnobydarja.blogsp...
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