Poll: should you need a license to be a parent

[Florion]

Well, if they can't afford to support a baby, should they be allowed to keep a baby? Whilst I generally think the poor shouldn't be left to die on the streets like the USA's health system would require, I don't see why the poor should be supported by everyone else went they have more children than their life can afford to keep. Ok, if they suddenly lose their job, its a different story, but thats a detail that would have to be hammered out.

What's the difference between a person who can't support their baby because they suddenly lost their job and someone who can't support their baby because they were always impoverished?

Who said anything about aborting the baby? For starters, the poll simply states the intended idea, not its implementation. Adoption or some form of temporary birth control could achieve the same effect.

I don't see the point in throwing an intended idea around that's morally innavigable. As I said before: do you need a license to have unprotected sex, or just to give birth? Or would it be that, if you're a woman who isn't licensed to have a baby, you would be forced by law to take birth control? So now there's also the gender double-standard in play; if the license-law is broken, do you prosecute the woman who gave birth or the man who impregnated her? What happens to the baby - is it necessarily better off in a foster home?

Apologies if you're just prodding out of curiosity and I'm talking like I'm sitting on a really high horse right now. It's hard not to on the internet. xP

 

[Triple G]

I think instead parents should have to sign a written contract, officially signing a set of rules that prevent them from allowing a child to take drugs, skive school, play in the street at night, leave it unattended for too long and not doing homework etc.

And by this making them the most boring work-horses on the planet...

If every parent in a society obeyed rules like that then pretty much everyone would be a model citezen, which is a good thing by the way

No it wouldn't, because it would kill every bit of individuality and would form people into a homogeneous mass that only obeys, instead of thinking for themselves. It would be just like today, but worse. But if you're okay with being a sheep, I can't stop you from dumbing yourself down and knocking your self out.

 

[sokka14]

the claim that parents are getting worse is, and always will be, fucking stupid. first of all that's a completely baseless claim, and secondly as the world changes and progresses so does the moral zeitgeist, so even empirical evidence which backs up this view would be meaningless.

in theory i think this is a reasonable idea, as some parents are clearly unfit to take care of children - giving them a miserable childhood and inflicting the same ideals, so the cycle continues.

however, enforcing it would be almost impossible. what would we do, sterilise people? if so, at what age?

 

[Madshaw]

I think instead parents should have to sign a written contract, officially signing a set of rules that prevent them from allowing a child to take drugs, skive school, play in the street at night, leave it unattended for too long and not doing homework etc.

And by this making them the most boring work-horses on the planet...

If every parent in a society obeyed rules like that then pretty much everyone would be a model citezen, which is a good thing by the way

No it wouldn't, because it would kill every bit of individuality and would form people into a homogeneous mass that only obeys, instead of thinking for themselves. It would be just like today, but worse. But if you're okay with being a sheep, I can't stop you from dumbing yourself down and knocking your self out.

I don't think that completing all your homework and obeying a curfew would kill all theindividuality of our children, my little brothr is one of the best characters i know, and he gets his work in on time and doesn't spend time on the street at night, if anything learning to do things like write good essays has caused his creativity and the way he puts ideas across to flourish

 

[Triple G]

I think instead parents should have to sign a written contract, officially signing a set of rules that prevent them from allowing a child to take drugs, skive school, play in the street at night, leave it unattended for too long and not doing homework etc.

And by this making them the most boring work-horses on the planet...

If every parent in a society obeyed rules like that then pretty much everyone would be a model citezen, which is a good thing by the way

No it wouldn't, because it would kill every bit of individuality and would form people into a homogeneous mass that only obeys, instead of thinking for themselves. It would be just like today, but worse. But if you're okay with being a sheep, I can't stop you from dumbing yourself down and knocking your self out.

I don't think that completing all your homework and obeying a curfew would kill all theindividuality of our children, my little brothr is one of the best characters i know, and he gets his work in on time and doesn't spend time on the street at night, if anything learning to do things like write good essays has caused his creativity and the way he puts ideas across to flourish

And I bet he's a bore. I know a lot of people who are good at school and are OK, but they are still boring as hell because they never do something out of the norm.

 

[Madshaw]

i'll give you the simple answer, no he isnt

 

[Azraellod]

Actually, I support this idea fully. I would love to see a license instated for becoming a parent. I have believed this should be the case for a long time actually.

When I see some of the pathetic examples of parents in the world, I'm forced to ask if they should actually be parents. The answer that i come up with is usually a resounding NO. And if this worked, it would solve the problems with this very effectively.

Sadly, I can see some of the impracticalities of the system. Even if the system was very well thought through, it would be open to abuse. It saddens me that corruption would cause these issues with such a potentially wonderful system, but then I guess there isn't much that can be done about it. The only solution that occurs to me there is that these tests are taken anonymously, and then you would have still more problems to deal with.

But this matters little to me. I still believe such a system would be beneficial, and would want it to be instated irrelevant of these flaws.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

The idea works in theory, but in practice is way to hard to implement. Though it is true that there are way to many crack whore mothers and deadbeat idiot fathers just fucking and producing more idiot crack addict children.