A child’s life

Ian Bayne (Letters, 26 August)is right: appointing a form of state guardian to every child has concerning implications.

On the radical liberal view that lurks not too far below the surface of the Scottish political consensus, families are seen as engines of inequality, because parents keep doing their best for their children, and promoters of views that are not quite in line with liberal orthodoxy.

On the other hand, the more the state can intervene in raising children, the more uniform their upbringing can be, and the more “appropriate” messages can be 
delivered.