At least judging by their other stated normative beliefs, most people:
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Would not agree that it’s immoral to fail to create more positive experiences (or reduce the amount of positive experience someone has)
One example of “creating more positive experiences” is giving your children a happy childhood full of joy vs. a merely indifferent one full of drab. Would “most people” really think that there is no duty to do the former and avoid the latter?
Judging by the valorization of “low-effort parenting”, “spending all your savings before you die” and similar memes, alongside the widespread condemnation of slapping children, it seems to me that people care far more about parents avoiding minor harms to their kids than trying to provide them with as much joy or benefit as possible (not saying this is correct).
I had not heard of those ideas, but a quick google turns up more negative than positive attitudes to them. In fact, I saw no-one with a good word for “spending all your savings before you die”, quite the opposite. This is a fate that retirees with a fixed pile of savings and no paid work try to avoid, also called “money death”.
In fact, as a new mother myself, I was surprised by the volume of content encouraging parents to prioritize their own comfort over their kids’ joy. Parenting subreddits are full of this stuff.
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One example of “creating more positive experiences” is giving your children a happy childhood full of joy vs. a merely indifferent one full of drab. Would “most people” really think that there is no duty to do the former and avoid the latter?
Judging by the valorization of “low-effort parenting”, “spending all your savings before you die” and similar memes, alongside the widespread condemnation of slapping children, it seems to me that people care far more about parents avoiding minor harms to their kids than trying to provide them with as much joy or benefit as possible (not saying this is correct).
I had not heard of those ideas, but a quick google turns up more negative than positive attitudes to them. In fact, I saw no-one with a good word for “spending all your savings before you die”, quite the opposite. This is a fate that retirees with a fixed pile of savings and no paid work try to avoid, also called “money death”.
In fact, as a new mother myself, I was surprised by the volume of content encouraging parents to prioritize their own comfort over their kids’ joy. Parenting subreddits are full of this stuff.
This seems like at least as strong evidence that parents are doing too much and need to be walked back