• Lexam@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    No! No it is not! What is wrong with you!? An 8 year old is a child. That’s on the adults raising the child, not the child.

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      14 hours ago

      That is almost always correct, but I think in this case a future astronaut would have been the kind of kid to say no, regardless of what their parents are doing.

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      21 hours ago

      As an 8 year old child I had a brain and some agency over myself. Not all is on parents.