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In Telos, "only" when a couple is united together in a sacred marriage are<br />
they allowed to have children. Since parenting in Telos is a long-term project,<br />
couples desiring to have children must first take a special parenting training.<br />
On the surface you must go through driver's education and have a license to<br />
drive a car, but any inexperienced, emotionally unstable sixteen year old<br />
child can give birth. These surface children participate in this all important<br />
responsibility of bringing another life into the world without any preparation<br />
or understanding of life itself.<br />
Children born in Telos spend a full two years in twenty-four-hour care with<br />
both mother and father. This is most crucial to the psychological make-up of<br />
the child. The father takes the first two years of the child's life off from his<br />
civil duties so that the infant can have balanced and equal time with the<br />
earthly representatives of Father/Mother God. Since the government provides<br />
all necessities for living, the Temple makes sure that this is virtually a<br />
requirement for the parents.<br />
The newborn child in Telos will actually receive a set of ten godparents soon<br />
after birth. This has many advantages. In Telos, a child will never feel that<br />
he/she does not receive enough attention with an additional twenty doting<br />
parental figures to guide them through their early years. It is usually<br />
arranged that all ten sets of godparents chosen will have newborn children of<br />
their own. This way, even if you are an only child, you will always have<br />
surrogate brothers and sisters to interact and play with. As the child grows,<br />
it will always spend time living with each set of godparents.<br />
This instills a subconscious acceptance that Father/Mother God will always<br />
be present since so much love from varying sources is provided to them.<br />
Children learn early on that they will always be loved, cared for and provided<br />
for.<br />
Children begin schooling at the age of three and their basic education<br />
continues until they reach the age of eighteen. Between three and five years,<br />
five days a week, they attend a half-day of organized play directed at learning<br />
basic social and art skills. Basics such as colors and numbers are taught in<br />
fun games. From five years on, they are in school for a full day, just like<br />
schools in your civilization.