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Every parent to be should read and adapt this approach

Every government should read and adapt this approach.

You mean, like, "To each, what they need; from each, what they are able?"

The problem is that there are several stable equilibriums to that proverb:

Everything can be taken from a slave and dead people need nothing.

To rephrase in a less hyperbolic manner : desire is unlimited, and you need force to extract work from the unwilling.

Of course, the unstated subject of “from each” is always you…