How could it be made fair, and who would police it?
2006-09-12 01:42:45 · 15 answers · asked by johninmelb 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Most definitely. You need a license to drive, hunt, fish, own a business but not to have children, our most valuable asset for the future. There are definitely a lot of people who shouldn't be procreating or raising children.
Behavioural testing would make it fair and the government (ie. Social Services/Welfare) should police it just like they do everything else.
2006-09-12 01:52:39 · answer #1 · answered by PlainLana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a good idea and the Government would police it. China is in the midst of doing it and the pregnancy is aborted or the extra child killed,if not the parents too. We haven't gotten complete information on that score which puts them low on the scale of granting human liberties. However that they have the sensibility to understand that Zero Population growth is vital to their continued existence and we are being held back from doing the same thing by religous extremeists puts the us behind the 8ball, not them.
2006-09-12 02:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Marcus R. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think this would be a good solution to the problem. A better approach would be to educate people so they don't *want* to procreate until they are ready, and they have the means to do this (i.e., birth control). Of course, this is not an easy task, but I think it is better than the policing approach (e.g., http://www.teenpregnancy.org)
2006-09-12 02:09:34 · answer #3 · answered by Luis T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your second question answers the first. It can't be fair other than available resources. Survival of the fittest, laws of supply and demand police it.
2006-09-12 01:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by Paul K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would not be fair, and impossible to police, but it sure seems like a good idea when you see so many poor unwanted children
2006-09-12 01:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by Alison D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it should but it can't be made fair and no-one in their right mind would offer to police it!
2006-09-12 01:45:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how (or if) it could be made fair, but it sure isn't fair to taxpayers to have to pay for other people's irresponsibility and it isn't fair to children to be born to people who have no means to take care of them.
2006-09-12 01:51:15 · answer #7 · answered by Engineer-Poet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definately, not necessarily means tested (i take that to mean financial) but you should definately have to apply to have kids, crime would be stopped within a generation, you could filter out all the scumbags from the genepool. I sound like a nazi but i promise ya im normally a liberal.
2006-09-12 01:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was a way to 'deactivate' all men and women and only 'reactivate' them when they've proved, through testing and some practice, that they can parent sufficiently well, I'd love it. However, that's all a theory. In practice, it'd be much harder.
2006-09-12 01:49:08 · answer #9 · answered by skapunkplaything 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only for these silly little girls who have the plans in their head for when they leave school and have 3 or 4 kids by the time they are 21 and have the tax payers look after them.
2006-09-12 01:46:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋