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Hayek actually has something to say about this. He won a Nobel Prize for showing how information gets lost in central planning. His 1974 lecture about ‘The Pretense of Science’ is spot on here. Any government decision about children should favor empowering parents, who each know much more about the details of their own children than any group of scientists and policy experts. Of course, this doesn’t help the child of absentee parents. But any help from them shouldn’t be at the cost of disempowering parents in general, which is precisely what the original plan did.