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That's nonsense. And I say that as a parent. Just because someone doesn't have kids of their own doesn't mean they don't have children in their lives they care about and want to thrive, or just want the species to improve itself.
And plenty of parents couldn't give less of a shit about their kids.
Yeah, but are they paying any of their own money to take care of those kids for two decades? As a parent, I'm involved in my kids' lives on a daily basis and I've been given an additional set of legal responsibilities & obligations. Society expects more from me in order to raise my kids (though I did willingly take that on by becoming a parent). You raise a good point though that further muddies the idea, what about legal guardians or adults who help out kids, who decides who gets that extra voting power? And then with delinquent parents, why should they be entitled to more voting power? It also further disenfranchises the LGBTQ+ community as well, so yeah, it's just fraught with way too many issues.
The only way this idea makes any sense is to allow the children to vote for themselves not to give a parent extra votes. You might argue that children are uninformed and won't vote 'correctly', but that same argument can be applied to the parents as being informed isn't a requirement to vote.
Good point. I'm sure there are plenty of kids I would rather were able to vote than their parents.