It is the first week of June, and “Pride” is in full swing. No longer is the optimal family model, one man and one woman, married, accepted as fact, or even as time-tested.

As a result, people rarely make children a primary component of ethical concerns. This is so even in feigned family-centered debates over universal childcare or in vitro fertilization. Nor are children protected from undue ideological indoctrination in schools and in society at large. The human child is one of the most complex and most impressionable life forms, and yet we seem to deal with it the most carelessly.

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Every consideration lacking above, however, normally applies to how we care for endangered animals. The details of a recent story about a rescued bear cub remind readers of the great possibilities of a child-valuing society. More than anything, it highlights how far off we are. 

The Washington Post tells of a young black bear cub found by campers in California and taken subsequently to a Humane Society center. Workers set up an indoor, forest-like habitation for the cub and have been tending to its needs of comfort and nourishment, feeding and playing with it throughout the day. They do as much, of course, “to prevent the cub from forming bonds with humans, which would disrupt his natural instincts and make it more difficult for him to survive in the wild.”

The costume choice affirms what we already know about caring for our young. Mothers and a natural environment are irreplaceable elements in the process. On top of that, they are inseparable: The natural environment indicates the characteristics of a mother, ones not subject to variation. For humans, that is firstly a womb and secondly the combined, long-term influence of mother and father.

Surrogacy is the primary undoer of this optimal model. The process places children in the unnatural state of separation from their mothers and directly into the hands of abusers, a system sustained by the development of gay marriage. 

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Children are clearly so great a good that most people approve of innovating human reproduction in order to obtain them, or of progressing beyond the mother-father dynamic to spread the wealth.

It is a mystery, then, why infants are deprived of their own needs not only incidentally, as a byproduct of things such as long working hours, but intentionally, in the form of surrogacy. But human intuition vanishes in the face of selfish goals, especially when it comes to the level of sacrifice required for authentic parenting. It’s a phenomenon that makes sense only in the framework of pride.