why isn't there mandatory sterilization for those who continue to use drugs and have babies?

Question

Parents who get their kids taken away because of drug addiction continue to have sex and the babies pay the consequences. Why not mandatory sterilization?

Answer 1

while it would be an invasion of someones rights, I say go for it.
If youre too stupid to take care of yourself and your lack of care causes a human baby to be harmed, whether born or unborn, I say its abuse or neglect, depending on how courts rule on it. If you abuse your rights, you should lose them. thats what prison does, right?
I also think that repeat sex offenders should be chemically castrated as well. I think that injection has to be repeated though, Im not clear on the details. But if the injections need to be done over and over to keep 'em castrated, then any time they miss that meeting, it would be assumed that they are on the prowl again, and kapow! back in prison they go.
how do we lobby for this?

Answer 2

I think you're on to something.

Seriously: Sterilization can be done back and forth by medical practicioners with relative ease. Boom your sterile - now your not.

I think all teenagers should be sterilized - then once they start paying taxes - get a job they earn the right to have children back. That would end welfare babies and curb teenage pregnancys - plus teenagers are going to have sex anyway - no more worries for them ruining the rest of their life.

Anyone convicted of a serious crime should be sterilized until released and they re-enter society as a responsible citizen.

We need to change the constitution to have citizenship as an earned status - citizens of good standing that pay taxes, work hard, help others would be guaranteed the right to procreate as much as they like - those that are a drain on society would not be able to pollute the gene pool, but would have incentive to turn their lives around if they want to have children.

Being a parent is the greatest responsibility we have and we let the worst in our society raise their children to become the next generation of criminals, child molesters and gang bangers.

Yes we need serious change and you're on the right track.

Answer 3

So we sterilize them. They are still people who are out there with addictions who will still have sex, likely contract AIDS and other diseases and be a burden on the health care system. We don't have mandatory sterilization because we are not a thrid world country. Why don't we chop the hands off of habitual thieves? Why don't we castrate men who impregnate women and then run off and leave the woman the responsibility? Why don't we cut out the tongues of politicians who tell us one thing and then do another just to be elected?
I understand your anger and I agree with you to an extent. For example, women who habitually abort babies. In a woman's lifetime, one or two is understandable...she coulda been raped by her father or a stranger in the park or she could just be a scared 16 yr old who made the wrong choice. But, like a friend of mine, who has had 4...no. I contend they are a threat to the human species and therefore should be sterilized.
Now back to your concern. What NEEDS to be addressed is WHY people feel they need to use narcotics? Being an American is hugely stressful. We work more hours per year than ANY other nation in the Westernized world. That wears down on people, they look for an escape that, if they don't work at a place that offers paid vacations for all employees regardless of what TYPE of work it is, they will find in alcohol and drugs.
It may be that their parents were pieces of crap who smoked pot and crack in front of them and depended on scamming churches to pay the bills and raised them in such an environment that provided easy access to such things. Those people were simply not educated from the beginning that there IS an alternate choice in life that will make them better people and productive, responsible citizens.
What we need is education for the poor and minorities. They are the ones you are complaining about and ARE the ones who are taught from the beginning at home and in school how to be on time (punctuality for a dead-end job), how to balance a checkbook, and how to fix a car (so as to get to said dead-end job) instead of, such as the kids whose parents are able to pay for better schools, are taught higher level maths and sciences and that there is a better life out there.
Don't hate on the people on drugs...while yes, it IS mostly their faults, they were most likely NOT given the tools to avoid the problem. Now it's become an issue we must all contend with. Education, not sterilization, is the answer.

Answer 4

Hmm, good question. Parents who do drugs and alchohol have brain damaged babies who pay the price for the abuse of substances by the parents. These kids go on to have terrible trouble in school. Look normal on the outside but they may never be able to even learn the alphabet and have terrible socializing problems. It is horrendous the price kids pay for substance abuse of parents. I too would support long term mandatory birth control perhaps in the form of a once a month shot to prevent pregnancy for those who are addicted and abusing substances and are sexually active.

Answer 5

why there is no castration for these child molesters...! Then i would agree. Castrate them all, and castrate everything... up to the neck!
and else, alcohol, cigarettes, obesity, medications, are having heavy effects on the child... so lets start there also. what is about genetic defects, like cancer... or simply stupid people with small IQ, like JFord. let's sterilize all the world, and leave out some genetically perfect people, to produce perfect kids. i understand your point so far, but there must be another way, then just putting everything down, as u r sitting in an AFV (>tank).

Answer 6

Mandatory sterilization has such long term consequences that it is an extreme violation of human rights. Maybe forced temporary birth control (such as the shot) would be effective.

Answer 7

Because we are not a police state! We have certain inaliable rights, and the government can not deny the right to pro-create. We have child protective services to tend to the welfare of these children, and there are many couples unable to have their own children, that adopt.
Although, I completely understand the point and I agree that people like this shouldn't bring babies into the world, we have to be very careful about not giving up our rights.

Answer 8

You live in a very liberal society with an extreme "victim mentality". I'm suprised you haven't been called a Nazi, yet.

Personal responsibility is an antiquated idea of a bygone era.

American Made, you dumb broad, wer'e talking about sterilization not castration. Wake up!

Answer 9

Because if they allowed that, then next would be the mandatory sterilization of people who ask stupid questions. Then we would all be in trouble.

Answer 10

That would be an example of a run away government impeding upon a persons birth rights to be able to procreate.

Even the King of England wasn't that bad when the revolutionary war was fought.

Answer 11

You sound like you just got through reading "Hominids" (sp). I thought their idea of castrating or sterilizing the whole family was great. I think that if we did it here then there would be a lot less crime and people would be much kinder to each other.