For those of you who have not read Dante’s Inferno<\/i>, please do so. I’ll wait. If you want a more approachable version (though John Ciardi’s translation<\/a> is quite fine), you can read Niven and Pournelle’s novel<\/a> by the same name.<\/p>\n Done?<\/p>\n Okay — then let me ask you this.<\/p>\n Does Dante have an appropriate bolgia (circle) for parents who let their children come into danger? Not, mind you, by accident. But by neglect. By selfishness. By a focus on only what is useful or pleasant or convenient to them, the parents (singular or plural).<\/p>\n How about parents who manipulate their children, not even for any possibly laudible reason like, “Well, this will be for his\/her own good,” but to score points? To satisfy an internal ego-trip? To “win” against someone else? 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