A major impediment to the advancement of statism is the family, which exposes children to values that may not conform to Big Government's agenda. The progressives running Sweden address this problem by pushing parents out of the business of parenting. Since spanking not only upholds parental authority but instills discipline, undermining the goal of reengineering the human race as a sty full of whiny, flabby, state-dependent perpetual children, it is forbidden:
A Swedish district court has sentenced a couple to nine months each in prison and fined them the equivalent of US $10,650 after they admitted to spanking three of their four children as a normal part of their parenting methods. …
There is no indication of abuse by the parents in the released documents, with the court noting that the parents "had a loving and caring relationship with their children." …
The children have been remanded to state-sponsored foster care since early this summer, and Mike Donnelly, Director of International Relations for the US-based Home School Legal Defence Association (HSLDA), told LifeSiteNews.com that it is "extremely unlikely" that the children will ever be returned to their family home. …
"Parenting has been outsourced, or simply directly taken over by the state in Sweden," Donnelly said. …
Ninety percent of Swedish children are in publicly funded day care from extremely early ages, as young as a year or 18 months, he said. It is the position of the state that parents are overruled by the state in areas of child rearing, he said.
As in Nazi Germany, homeschooling is also forbidden in Sweden's socialist utopia. If the wealth you create isn't yours but the government's, why shouldn't the same be true of your children?
