I love it!!! “shape OUR children” as if she owns my kids. I have to show this to my Aunt who is a big Hitlery supporter.
The article might have been alluding to the Spies as well, a youth organization in Orwell’s 1984, like the Soviet Pioneers in their red kerchiefs. The Inner Party used them to turn families against themselves because familial loyalty competed with the Party.
As well as receiving uniforms and indoctrination, they were given ear-horns so they could listen to their parents behind closed doors in order to turn them into the Thought Police for thought crime.
Oceania also had an organization called the Anti-Sex league, young women who wore red sashes and kept an eye out for illicit lovin’ while the Party tried to come up with a way to artificially procreate, for the same reasons.
Winston’s `Julia’ (no last name) belonged to the League, and was a nymphomaniac.
Give your progressive aunt an ear-full.