Do you think people should have licenses to have children , and able to fulfill specific criteria?
such as working over a certain age etc!! just a thought !
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I'm not sure a license would be the right thing, but I do feel that every parent should have to take a parenting course before the birth of their baby. With things like child abuse that often passes from generation to generation, taking a class and learning the appropriate way to discipline could put an end to it, saving not only the children, but also our states millions of dollars from not having to place children in Foster Care. But I do feel that no person under the age of 18 has any business having a child. You are a child yourself. I have a dear friend who's mother was 16 when she was born. She had a child at 17 herself and then her daughter had her first child at the age of 15. It's a cycle, one that can't seem to be broken. Instead of simply giving girls birth control at the age of 14, I think they should also have to complete a parenting class them selves and a Sex Education class. Along with unwanted, unplanned pregnancies, we would be able to stop VD. The spread of AID's would decrease drastically if more young people, and adults for that matter, knew how important it was to protect themselves. My mother always told me that sex was nothing without love which I had always thought was her way of trying to keep me from having sex as a teenager. Luckily it did work, but it doesn't for everyone. If everyone was required to take classes, along with a financial class on the cost of raising a child, I think there would be a decrease in unwanted pregnancies. We have the tools to prevent so many things if we were all just educated properly. But then, there are just some people who should not have children at all, but you can't just take that right away from them.
Excellent idea. Some people should simply not be allowed to have children.
Wow, aren't we a little Nazi? Maybe you could add to the criteria. How about a certain level of mental competance? Or maybe the parents could have a certain skin tone? This is a slippery slope you are leading yourself down. What would be the punishment for someone who didn't have a license? Jail time? A fine? Sorry, it is just a foolish idea.
yes there is to many abandoned children or abuse
I agree with you people they should have a license
And what shall we do with scofflaws?
definately, it would save the country a hell of a lot of money and would ensure a child a better lifestyle.
I can see how that could be a good idea, but I can also see how it is a bad idea. So, if you have people on both sides of the fence on this issue, how do you decide who is right and who is wrong? Making decisions like that is what gets the government into so much trouble.
This would be an exercise in futility. They will have children with or without licenses.
Who enforces the proposed license regulation? What is the punishment for having children without a license? And would any such punishment not just wind up penalizing the child?
Yes!
I mean, you need a patent to drive a car but not one to raise a child... Our society is going downhill because there is no more natural selection: dumber people has more child.
Yes definately, everyone should be made infertile in a reversable operation, and shuld then have to apply for a licence depending upon circumstances such as
Criminal record
Financial Status
Living Arrangements
Working status
The world would be better with less children, especially poor countries, on that i agree.
But licensing means state intervention on a massive scale, it means corruption, it mean "illegal" Children that the state may "confiscate" and "sell"' all this is not a bad dream, it happens in China, where they try to control population growth.
Give people the good life, education and welfare, make the state Secular, and what do people do, they stop breeding. look at Europe.
While the idea may seem good in theory, how could any such idea ever be implemented in practice? If children get born from the sperm and vagina of a couple who have failed to fulfil the specified requirements, whether as a result of a "mistake" or deliberate disobedience by the father and mother, what are you going to do with the resultant child? Send it back? Or exterminate it ? Or put it up for sale to highest bidders with required Certificate of Authorisation from the Ministry of Babies & Reproduction in Whitehall?
And do all males failing to pass required exam to qualify themself to have sex with any women be castrated and failing females' vaginas be sown up?
It is a nice idea as I have seen far more cases of child neglect than any person ever should (really seeing one, is seeing one too many).
But of course it will never happen. Despite what people's views are on abortion, the government really means what they say with "a woman's right to choose." Much like Religion the government tries to let women make these choices on their own. The government can't (except in extreme rare cases) force a woman to have a baby, and (except in even more rare cases) can't force a women to NOT have a baby.
You need a license to have a gun, drive a car, sell a case of beer, but if you want to bring a helpless child into this world and treat it like crap no one can stop you.
Yes! I was talking about this the other day. Overpopulation is a problem and I think people should have employment, be required to take parenting classes, these sorts of things.
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