The couple have three children who they educate according to the rules of their institution, The Pragmatist. They aim to have seven children but following very specific dictates. During an interview with the Guardian, Mr Collins hit his 2-year-old son in the face claiming it was a tiger-like way of parenting
They are called Simon and Malcolm Collins and they have become one of the symbolic couples of “pronatalism”, i.e. a project that aims to push and help people to have more children so that the low birth rate does not imply the collapse of society. The Collinses also run a themed non-profit organisation, called The Pragmatist and their story is told by Daily Mail. Simon and Malcolm have 3 children, Octavian Georgefour years, Torsten Savagetwo, and daughter Titan Invictus, 16 months. They live in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. According to their “pragamatist” theories, genetics matters more than education in a child’s development. How do they translate this into practice? They don’t buy their children toys. However, the three children have an iPad that they have to keep tied around their neck. The Collins juniors don’t celebrate Christmas but the Day of the Future when the Police of the Future will bring gifts. Of course, the Collins children sometimes play, yes, but “with gifts because we don’t throw anything away”, Malcom told the Guardian. Games that are made to disappear when children are given the task of writing a contract describing how they will improve the world. Only as soon as they are finished will they be able to get the hidden objects back.
The couple’s idea is to have seven children: “We won’t be able to send them to a private school and we won’t be able to pay for university – they explain – We don’t raise them as if they were retired millionaires, which is what many Americans do: they behave as if they were their drivers and they accompany them to football or to various lessons. When people say ‘I can’t afford to have kids’ means that he cannot afford it at the standards he deems socially acceptable“. So. the large family is necessary for the maintenance of civilization but according to precise rules. Now, the Collins may have clear ideas but many have reported to social services because during the interview with the Guardian, Malcolm Collins hit his two-year-old son in the face. So strong that it left the journalist “shocked”. According to the Collins, in fact, the rule applies to tigers who ‘straighten’ undisciplined cubs with a stroke of their paw. The journalist of Guardian he was talking to Malcolm Collins about Elon Musk, a supporter of pronatalism, when his son bumped into the restaurant table where they were. That’s where the blow to the face came. After hitting the child, he continued the conversation as if nothing had happened. “Now they want to take the children away from us,” Collins himself told the New York Post.
