People should be forced to get a license before having children

To make sure they are mentally, emotionally, and financially fit to raise children. If they aren't they will be advised to take courses to improve thier ability.

Protection for the unborn.

Giving birth is not a right, it is a privilege with many responsibilities. You have to earn the privilege first in-order to have children.

 

What would you call it? My visa something or nother card lol.

 

Birth Visa sounds good.

 

I've often thought the same, when I see stories of neglect, abuse and then witness the toll that poor childrearing takes on our society, what with drugs, crime and such. While I'm not sure just how big a factor that insufficient parental skills play in the big picture, I would at least advocate elective classes in high school, and especially in the case of teen pregnancy. Some people, in spite of being physically capable of producing a child, have no mental or emotional capacity to nurture and educate another human being. It'll never happen though, least not in the States, where the welfare system encourages the underprivileged to have children that they can't take care of.

 

Don't forget to make sure that only blond, blue-eyed people reproduce....

 

That's not the point at all, although I knew that someone would take it to this extreme...what do you think should happen to all of the unwanted, underprivelged children that are produced by parents that are incapable of caring for them? I'd rather they have something like an educational system to prepare the unprepared, than for us to keep killing unborn kids. I'd rather bear that burden, than pay my taxes towards a weflare system that promotes irresponsible behavior.

 

The Boy is just like me.

 

Do you really think that the government should have that much control over people's bodies? I was being serious, not extreme.

What would you like to have them do? Throw people in jail for getting pregnant? Or chemical castration until the paper work comes through? Of course if they decide you are ugly, maybe your paperwork will never come through....

It is unfortunate that there are a lot of unwanted children. I think education would help. Add parenting and life skills classes to grades 4 and up...

 

I agree with you about the parental classes, but not chemical castration, hell no! What do you think of having birth control available free until you're 18? Sex Ed is about as far as I'd be willing to see this thing go, from a government point of view...there are plenty of other institutions in a modern society that have a part to play in solving this crisis, like churches and whatnot.

 

The government already has entirely too much control over families and how they live their lives-just ask me how they've fucked up my family and the families that I know. What a ridiculous proposition. Curse the government straight to hell.

 

And that's the way I feel about it when I'm in a GOOD mood-you don't want to hear me when I'm in a bad one.

 

If you want state sponsored population control, perhaps you should try going to china

And I heard a lil while ago that this generation is the first to have a life expectancy which is LESS than their parents. Which means life expectancy is actually decreasing

 

We don't have a population problem in the US-our population would have declined if it wasn't for so much immigration. Population decline is not a good thing for industrialized nations. Even in China, in a few decades there will be a shortage of workers due to their long-term one child policy. They won't have enough workers to supply the growing industrial base. If the government had just left people alone and not told them how many kids to have, that wouldn't happen. And btw-fuck the government, and it's audacity to think it has the right to tell families how to live, whether in China or the US. That's my three cents.

 

Darn computer I wrote stuff that didn't go thru. Basically what I said is that people should have sensitivity training. They need to see a counselor or doctor before they have kids to resolve childhood junk. like ma's that beat kids because their parents beat them. I strongly dislike hearing how much a person appreciates getting smacked as a child when they know that's not true. I had girl when I was in school say that she couldn't wait until she grew up and had kids so she could beat them. (We are both grown now and I only hope she doesn't feel that way.)That's someone that needs attention now before it's too late. No one even looks at the fact that those abused children turn their anger on society as a whole and make life unsafe. The columbine killings come to mind. It’s time to do something especially when you see a parent hit their child in public. I don’t mean a slap on the hand but hard abuse. (Although I don’t condone a slap on the hand I don’t want the child to run loose and get hurt or in bigger trouble.) I’m a firm believe in conversation. (You’ve noticed) I think that if you establish communication early then you can probably have a good if not great relationship with children. (I have none so it’s probably a load of crap but I’m throwing it out there lol.)

 

This is not about population control, it is about making sure parents are fit to raise children. I see too many people who are not fit to be parents and I would like that number to decline a lot.

You can have as many children as you like as long as you are fit to have them.

This Birth Visa is comparable to a driver's licence.

 

If I was unborn, I would my parents to be financially, emotional, and mentally stable to have me not some crack heads.

 

Should we abandon the necessity of driver licences?

 

I Can't see this Happening...

 

I agree with everything that Bellfire01 said-my problem is the government believing, wrongly, that it has the competence to deal with these issues, when it doesn't, and then causing many more problems than they solve. The government should only intervene in family problems when there is a serious reason to do so (just the opposite is happening today) and then when someone is accused of something, give them the real rights of due process that they deserve to protect the innocent (this almost never happens, either). Instead, the government is intervening in family matters today in ridiculous, tyrannical ways, and almost always causing many more problems than they're solving.

 

Just a small fine to enofrce the law.