system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Witcher] How is receiving a child through Law of Surprise any different from slavery?

Does the child have any agency in their own life, even when an adult? What about the right of the other parent to not have their child involuntarily taken from them?
gpt
It's not exactly slavery so much as you're now the kid's parent. You raise them how you see fit until they run away or are old enough to make their own decisions. So it's slavery but in it's lightest form and not much different from just adoption. There's no obligation for a person to even keep a child of surprise so it's not too radical of an idea to just dump them off at an orphanage or with a village to care for them rather than bother raising them yourself.