Comments on: Should You Need a License to Parent?

By: wordbobby

wordbobby — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:42:00 +0000

The popular free ebook series “In Search of Utopia” addresses two major problems of our modern society–overpopulation and licensing parents so that children have a better chance to develop healthy, happy and productive. Many suggestions are found throughout the books. It could be as simple as requiring that parents be a certain age, like 16, 18 or 25. Or it might require several hours of lessons on basic parenting skills and the needs of children. But it could require much more to increase the chances that the child would be loved and cared for properly and not be mistreated, tortured or killed.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:03:54 +0000

miked: I’m all for this,…..

Sounds like a movie. Can decide if it's District 9 or I am Legend.

By: miked

miked — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:00:18 +0000

I'm all for this, but unfortunately, I'm only for it under a dictatorship which I run. Since even allowing my dictatorship to run goes against everything I stand for, then I know my idea is just a pipe dream.

Other than that, there really is no way to enforce this (currently) and having the inept government try to do it will only drive up the cost and destroy families like crazy. You can't regulate a natural human activity. This means things like driving, getting married, hunting, and fishing are subject to regulation, but rights like breeding, eating, and drinking water shouldn't be thanks in part to those being functions necessary for life and the continuation of the species. However, if we really want our government to do something completely draconian in regulating a natural human function then we have various countries in Africa to look to in order to properly control this.

In Africa, when we eliminate the supply of available food, people don't eat because they can't. Sure large amounts of people die, but hey, we can blame it on the weather. :-) If people in the United States mysteriously all became sterile due to drugs in the water supply, and we regulated who gets the cure, then we get our answer. :-D

Then well, if our cure starts to fail we've exterminated the whole human race.

By: Emcee

Emcee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:32:22 +0000

Nita: True…true.The fight for abstinence should be pushed just like the fight for breast cancer….they would both save lives!

Abstinence does not “save” lives it just prevents them, bad analogy, but I see where you’re going.

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By: Nita

Nita — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:53:45 +0000

People drive, hunt, fly an airplane, practice law, etc…all without a license. What makes you think that even if it was a law, people (the people that need the license especially) wouldn’t find a way to get around it like they do now. People won’t follow basic laws now that require the use of a license…such as a license to carry a deadly weapon. So I’m going to say no on that one. Teaching the importance of abstinence and practicing it is going to be our best choice.

By: Nita

Nita — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:47:30 +0000

True…true. The fight for abstinence should be pushed just like the fight for breast cancer….they would both save lives!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:24:58 +0000

Nita: .Teaching the importance of abstinence and practicing it is going to be our best choice.

We see how incredibly well that is working out so far don't we?

By: Derrick

Derrick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51:02 +0000

Marcus:

I see it being done the same way as a driver’s license.You take the test, you get the license, and then you go on your merry way.From that point the execution is left up to the hospital.Sure some people would go underground and have their kids, but you have to be pretty hardcore to pull that one off.

Are you writing a fiction book!!!! HA HA HA Dude, a driver's license doesn't stop me from driving now. If I fail my make-a-baby test, then me and ms will go home and just practice.