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So many parents are unfit. When you can have a child yourself no one does anything to see if you are
fit as a parent unless they have reason to but adopting parents have to go through background checks
and make sure they have a fit home. This should be mandatory for all parents to be sure children
aren't being brought into an unsafe environment with unfit parents. |
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Licensing might be the solution to this crazy world where teenagers are having children. It isn't
even just them though. There are many others that should need this also. If this were to be put in
place, I think there would be a lot less people on welfare and a lot less abuse in children going
on. Some people just have to fess up to not being meant to have kids. There would have to something
to prevent them from conceiving a child though besides just needing a licesne. What would we do,
arrest them for getting pregnant without one? |
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Anyone who disagrees with this needs to find a TV station besides PBS and watch it for an hour. |
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It is patently obvious that many, many couples are entirely unqualified to be parents.
All people contemplating having a child should be forced to undergo vigorous parenting instruction.
Churches conduct classes for couples contemplating marriage, and this “weeds out” some of them.
Why is this any different when it comes to determining parenting qualifications?
While I agree that this is unenforceable, think of how many fewer cases of child abuse might result.
Also, when parents “stay together for the sake of the child,” kids can be permanently
psychologically damaged.
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese authorities fined and publicly humiliated couples who broke
the law by having more than one child. Draconian, yes, but the government recognized that in order
to better provide for all members of its society, rampant overpopulation had to be curbed.
Forcing couples to take pre-conception parenting classes could be just as effective for the same
reason. |
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Brilliant! That's true that if you should have to have a license for something as menial as cutting
hair (sorry to any hairdresser reading this), having responsibility for another person should
definitely require a license. |
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Yes
you should need to have a license. Sooo many children are abused and worse in homes where they are
not wanted. They're "mistakes" to those parents.
That's why.. You shouldn't bring a child into the world if you are not ready to take care of it.
There may not be as many kids.. And i know there would still be births without "licensed parents" if
this happened, but at least the woman and man both agree they WANT the child! And they should know
how to take care of it. |
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Very intresting! And actually a very good one! And yes, I totally agree. Lots people are not
responsible for educating their kids, and as a result, we have lots teenage crime, its all parents
fault. So yes, people should be qualified to be parents |
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What a load of garbage. CPS has already made it so that parents aren't allowed to be parents without
being accused of child abuse or neglect; what more do you want? |
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It couldn't work, but I wish child protective laws were more strict. In AMerica, you get in trouble
after the harm is done. Example.. A woman at my church has a son who had a fever for 6 days.. Over
102.. 3 days it was 104.. She refused to take him to the dr because it was cold outside. She finally
took him(Because her extended family got on her big time) after a week and he has strep...which
isn't a big deal unless it's untreated and then it can turn into ruematiod fever, which can kill
you.. She should be in BIG trouble.. But she only would have been if he had died... She should ahve
been called in , and then been ona probabtion and had to report to an officer every week for a
period of time. ANd a medical course on children wouldn't hurt either. What gets me is that she has
medicaid so money wasn't an issue. GRRRRRR I almost went and got him to take him. I wish something
could be done to get idiot parents off their dupas and take good care of their children |
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I think there should be pre-parenting classes that are compulsory. |
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Forcing anyone to do something that they don't want to do is communism. Don't give me the they
force us to pay taxes argument because taxes fix our roads provide police etc. So it is not the same
thing. |
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This is obscene!!! Parents should have free choice!!! |
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To be a parent is to control a life, and forcing people to have permission to raise and continue
their bloodline is just absurd. |
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NO, no authority, whether it be state or federal has the constitutional authority to create such a
despicable law. We have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and requiring
licenses for everything is taking away our fundamental and most widely held freedoms. I equate this
to a step passed the Real ID act and it is awful. |
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The only way to enforce such a law would be to resort to the most extreme measures, in order to
ensure that those without a license do not, in fact, have children. Since the state cannot supervise
couples in their bedrooms, prohibiting parents without such a license from having kids would require
that government force pregnant women to have abortions and this--as you can well imagine--would be
hugely controversial and totally unethical. Forcibly taking a child away and putting him/her in an
orphanage would be equally devastating.
Instead of issuing licenses to parents, perhaps public authorities can be more pro-active when it
comes to offering parenting courses, free of charge. I would especially target those who have
teenage pregnancies and go as far as to require anyone under 18 to attend such courses. |
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It's a nice idea in theory but, in practice, it would be a political powerderkeg because denying the
right to have children to certain people would be the equivalent of implementing a eugenics program.
Let's say the program has been running for a while and the statistics of those who have not been
granted permission to have children are examined. Probably, you would find that the less well
educated and poorer segments of society are represented disproportionately. So it could seem like a
eugenics program targeted at removing the lower orders from society.
If it's a country with significant racial minorities, what happens if the racial minorities are
represented disproportionately? You can see how that would give rise to unparalleled political
outrage. |
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It's unenforceable. If you drive without a license, they can pull you over, give you a ticket, and
if you keep doing it, take your car. It's very hard to take someone's reproductive system, at least
temporarily. I won't disagree that people should be required to take classes or prove they are
capable of being a good parent, but there's really no way to require it. |
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10 Apr 2008 02:08
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