No matter who suspicious you may be of parents voting on behalf of their children, I personally find the basic underlying principle compelling. I wonder if you would count yourself on the side of slavemasters in the antebellum South. America before the Civil War did have a very rich and powerful class of people who were going to be overthrown by the abolition of slavery. Just look at the demographic issues that have arisen with modernity, and ask yourself whether we are serving our children, our future, in a manner that in anyway accords with principles of social justice. We our selling our children into bond slavery, and you are laughing all the way to the bank.

Dunno about that, The primary reason for a nanny usually is to take care of the kids. And if you don’t have any kids, why hire a nanny?

Plus, the german MEP’s don’t even have enough kids to fill up the daycare center that was specially built for them near the Bundestag in Berlin. Apparently it was quite a row because there were plenty of childcare centers nearby with ample room.

And who is getting the extra vote(s), the father or the mother? Or do they get some private time together in the voting booth to wage war or love about it…? :-)