[FeistyOtter]

It's a continuation of an ongoing trend nowadays to elevate to a government level issues that should be solved in the family. Instead french government should spend its efforts on actual society problems that affect every child, like fixing french school system. But then they have to spend brain power and money while fighting entrenched interest groups, so as always, low hanging fruit is easier to pick.

[loulou24]

I wonder if we could pinpoint when this awful trend got started (in France and elsewhere).

[justnotworthit]

My guess is that most people believe that their own family is functional, but that other people's families are creating delinquents.

[smt88]

Every theocracy did it, and most non-theocratic governments did too. It's not a new trend.