culture blurbs...liberals don't REALLY care about in interests of children...that much.

from the Corner:

As Tubbs says:
...in recent decades liberal political theorists and jurists have gone about their work as though the personal freedom of adults is a political value that outweighs all competing interests, including some closely associated with the welfare of children. This viewpoint has been taken as an article of faith, or as if the current course of action is self-evident. The result is a number of large gaps in liberal thought....
Tubbs probes those gaps and challenges liberal thinkers to explain, as they often have not, "why the personal freedom of adults should routinely outweigh the competing interests of children." That strikes me as opening up a fascinating debate.

Freedom’s Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children, by David L. Tubbs.