Parenting Licenses, Anyone?

A very good and valid point! We'd probably end up with fewer delinquents and career criminals,,:-)=

I agree ,but even with a back ground check it is impossible to know who will or will not be good parents.Some of the best parents are not exactly what you or I would consider parent material ,and those we would sometimes are the worst.So you see that is why we do not do that. Anyways have you ever heard the term wolf in sheeps clothing.apperances are decieving.But I do believe that child protective services should have stiffer guidlines of abuse or neglect .Do u know in Kentucky the if a child recieves one MC Donalds hamburger a day it is considered ok. How many people do you know can survive on that?

It's a good idea, but there's no way to enforce it. Although I did read a science fiction book once where people had to be liscensed to even become PREGNANT. The government put birth control in the water, and you had to apply for special non-birth control water if you wanted to become a parent.

Because when you put regulations on something like that worse things can happen. How would you controll conception of the whole population? You can't have ovulation police! What about all the unplanned pregnancies? Would you kill the unborn baby? What about all the people that pass the test and still mistreat their children? Much mental illness associated with abusing children occurs after the baby is born and the mother is going through post pardum issues. Adoption is so strict because it is an answer to all the unfit and unplanned pregnancies and has a controlled way to be regulated. A class and a liscense will not prevent a stressed out father from drinking because he is stressed due to his piling bills then going home and hurting his wife and son. Or a mother that took the class and has three kids but decides to only abuse one of her children. There are way too many factors of society to control such a matter. Marriage is supposed to be your liscense to reproduce with society and religion keeping you in check, but that has gone down the crapper due to our social break down of norms and values. People should not have children at all because our world is not a safe place and i am scared to death for my 7month old son

I have often thought about this numerous times myself... however, I think we should prevent the bad parenting b4 the pregnancy.... you need a building permit by law to build etc. when you want to start having a family.... you need to apply for a permit of some sorts... background checks, psycho analysis... dont take the baby away and/or give a mother the opportunity to make bad choices during her pregnancy, nip it b4 it begins... eleminate these children from suffering... and punish thier parents if they choose to disobey!

It would be great if you could insure that people would at least get the training that getting a license would require, and I completely agree with your intentions. However, how would this licensing be enforced? Sterilization? Mandatory prison time and/or fines for those who father or deliver children without the proper government approval? Like it or not, we are where we are, and people do have the "right" to care for their children. They do not, however, have the right to abuse them, and we're not making such great strides in that area of enforcement, are we? Your only option is to keep focused on the ideas you've expressed, and do the best job you can to prepare yourself and whoever else you can to be the best parents you know how to be. Even then, there will be those who think you're doing a terrible job, who would "never do it that way with MY children!" This will probably be your mother-in-law.

Parenting requirements, hmmm, they should start with the parents of the new mother having a baby. I don't believe there is any way that this would work, mainly due to MANY people that shouldn't have kids to begin with. And WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE CHILDREN!! Only under duress circumstances I would say no, the parents should not be allowed to have children. Such as two people that were married and we know they could not be responsible parents, mentally challenged in a more severe degree, when they were only barely able to take care of themselves. There are many people that have children that have mental issues, more than most of us realize!! There are other things I feel should be controlled, such as getting a drivers license at 15, 16, should not be allowed, drinking laws 21yrs. of age...please, so many teenagers know someone that is going to buy it for them. Many other things, but I will stop there, b/c I don't want to get on my soap box, but this scenario you have proposed is really not how it should be. Good thought tho, to some degree!! =) ~PEACE~

Never thought about it that way....but how would that work, i mean how would the hospital knw? The 2 - 3 days u spend in there your somewhat doped up and have a serious lack of sleep...so what steps would they take to assure they are right?

and people say bush is a dictator-fascist crazy...