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Thermopylae wrote:

"Twelve Tables...seems to me, assuredly to surpass the libraries of all the philosophers, both in weight of authority, and in plenitude of utility"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tables?wprov=sfla1

That question is better fielded, not to Sparta, but to Rome itself. It is, afterall, the fourth of your twelve fundamental laws. If Sparta can provide its own commentary, however, then we shall opine that no citizen (of Sparta, if not Rome) has the right to generate the externality of a dependent by nature, nor the externality of a constant ambling & stammering offense to the sensibilities of the good citizenry.

Should a household fail to prune the weeds of its garden, it should not stand back aghast when fellow households worry for the health & beauty of their own gardens.