Do you think people should be required to obtain a parenting license prior to having children?

I do because no precious child needs some pervert, abuser, or financially unstable person to be parenting them. If you think this is like the ';morality police';, guess what? Some idiots are so stupid and disgusting that they need to be policed morally. CHILD ABUSE IS MY BUSINESS, and should be everyone's business. If people can't take care of their children properly, they do not deserve to have them. That's my belief and I'm stickin to it.Do you think people should be required to obtain a parenting license prior to having children?
Yes, Yes, Yes, I have said this many times before.





I have to have a license to drive, to own a gun, to get married, yet people are just allowed to pop out as many as they want and when they harm them, they get a slap on the wristDo you think people should be required to obtain a parenting license prior to having children?
We license all sorts of behavior and things in this country. Licensing parents is something I advocated in college (many years ago). I still think it's a good idea.
i agree with you. i am also in the business of children, some with disabilities directly caused by the mother during pregnancy.





babies that are born with addictions to drugs or alcohol, the mothers should be arrested and charges pressed for child abuse. the perfect scenario would be to get to them before it happens. that would be all the better, and you have to start somewhere!
I agree, but that would mean birth control. We know who would not like that, don't we.
Man what a great question! Honestly...I do. Let's see some responsibility and test 'em on that as well as a myriad of other things like manner, respect for other people, their property and the law.


However...this now opens up the doors of Civil Liberties. The right to vote. The right to bear arms. The right to free speech and the right to be stupid, careless and irresponsible.


What would the penalties be for violaters? How would you enforce this? I love the idea but what are you going to do with the unborn child? Let Mom have it and ship it to a state run adoption factory? If so...it kinda smacks of Nazisim. I can see a large obstacle to overcome there. Ah...and then...there's the Church. The Big One. But I'm sure the Mormon's, the Hebrews, the Baptists and everyone else would have something to say as well.


No. Great idea if it could be pulled off Annie. But lets face it. It takes no college degree to get laid. Although I did get one under the impression that it would help me to...I was in error.





So we're stuck with hillbilles, trash and irresponsible people in general who mingle amongst us responsible and law abiding (except for that red light you squeeze through or stop sign you blow when no one's looking...in a marked car) citizens.





If you can work out some of the kinks let me know.





Good question though. Thought provoking with no simple answer. Hey! That's life isn't it?
No, it is against the Constitution and the Bill of Right.





Even in your Utopia, where a person gets a ';parenting liscence'; does that make he or she really anymore qualified to be a parent? Just because a person has learned certain skills for a test and pass it, does not mean that they really know, understand or can apply the materials they learn...it just means they have good rote memorization for a short-term test.





What would happen to the children that were born to parents without a ';Parenting License';? Where would they go? Who would care for them? Most likely, they would be institutionalized like kids in orphanages in Romania and Russia.





Bigger question who would love them? Kids that have been adopted from some foreign countries that lived in institutions since birth have no real attachments to any people and that creates sociopathic personalties (some kids have had to been un-adopted and turned over to the State when they proved to harmful to other children or the adults in the household).





I do agree that people should not have kids unless they want them and ready to take care of them both financially and emotionally and that there needs to be better education in schools that teach life skills and parenting skills...kids may never need algebra, but a vast majority will become parents or at least have to hold a job...they need those skills to make it in this world. I know this a hotbed of controversy with many parents as they see it as being the parent's job in teaching those skills, but the bottom line is many parents AREN'T and too busy and wrapped up in their own lives to be a good parent.
I can agree their are plenty out there that shouldn't have kids, but I DO NOT believe there should be any license. Financial unstability?? What would you do to all the kids that grew up during the depression? Take them away? Financial stability is not promised in this country, and not illegal. You think only the rich should have kids or something???


However, perversion and abuse are illegal and there are channels to report that.


Moral police? Who will decide what is and isn't moral? You? Not in my country sister, it's the adults in this house that decide what is right or wrong, you will never. That's a promise.


I fully agree that an abused, or child in danger, needs to be removed from that situation immediately.


But I'll be damned if I'll let you or anyone else regulate or dictate exactly how I should raise my children.





BTW - How many licensed drivers are bad drivers? You think a parent license would be any different?
This would be great if there was some way to make it law but there isn't. But the crimes people commit on their children is horrible and something does need to be done.
I think it would be freaking awesome, but then....You know, big brother has no business.
would be nice, but if it worked out anything like licensing at the DMV..... lost cause
No felonies, good jobs, two parent home, no sex crimes, a clean house or nice apartment.
Not possible. The courts have ruled repeatedly that laws restricting ';reproductive rights'; are unconstitutional.
True that some people do not deserve to have children but there is nothing that can be done in preventing it, if they want to have sex we can't stop them, and sex results in pregnancy. it is a natural thing, that should not be messed with
You could push for such a law. Of course you'd have to toss out the US Constitution first.
what do you propose we do with the children of those unlicensed folks who have sex?
Ok. I hope you have kids yourself. You know what? maybe some people do not deserve to have children but people I grew up with that were some of the laziest people thet did bad in school and I never thought would be good parents have turned out to be some of the best. Having kids in most cases changes the way people think. And until you actually have kids you could not understand it. People want to do better and give their kids everything in the world. So a license no but I think that maybe in high school there should be some required classes besides health class to help you realize what having a baby means to you. And are there studies that show people who take parenting classes do much better than anyone else??