if so i at first thought you know when i didn't have kids i was going God how can you be so protective you know  but
Back when I did not have children I thought about how some could be so protective of them.
Occasionally, I have a nightmarish vision in which the Santa Fe Institute, that temple of complexity theory (whose heavy hitters include Bak, biologist Stuart Kauffman and, yes, economist Brian Arthur) actually starts having direct input into major policy decisions.