Child neglect

Child neglect is failure to meet some standard of care for one's child. It is punishable under some countries' laws.

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According to Rothbard, child neglect should be legal, because no one has a right to demand that another person provide for him, except as required by contract or restitution. Evolution will ensure that people will have a tendency to care for their children adequately, because those who fail to do so tend to prevent their own genes and memes from reproducing.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe adopts the Rothbardian approach, which uses the child's capacity to run away and say "no" as a sort of rule of thumb for indicating when a child fully appropriates his body. The right of the child to run away helps counterbalance the right of the parent to neglect his child, because it gives the child a means of escape from a neglectful situation.