Should parents who are known/convicted child abusers/drug addicts be involuntarily sterilized?

Question

If a parent has been convicted of child abuse or habitual drug use, should society intervene and force them to be sterilized? Why or why not?

Okay, for the benefit of those of you who skimmed through the question and then decided that I wasn't specific enough..........let me say that there has been a CONVICTION or REPEATED REPORTS made of ACTUAL MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ABUSE (not just saying "no" to a child) or ILLEGAL DRUG ABUSE WHICH RENDERS THE PARENT UNABLE TO PROPERLY CARE FOR THE CHILD (not just smoking a buttload of cigarettes or drinking loads of coffee)......is that any CLEARER??????

Answer 1

Hey, finally someone that thinks the way I do!!!!

Answer 2

You know intially I would have said yes and then I thought about it for a moment. One of the the (many) wonderful things that set us humans apart from (and above) the rest of the animal kingdom is the ability to recognize when we have made a mistake and turn our lives around. Is there any one of us that hasn't done SOMETHING in their life that they regret? If your answer is no, I would argue that you must be very young and to give it a few years because you will certainly mess up some time in your life.
Even someone that is convicted of child abuse and or habitual drug use can change. It doesn't mean they will change but hey, stranger things have happened. And lets say that someone was considered a "habitual drug user" by the time they were 21. What if by the time they were 31 they were clean for 10 years. Are you going to tell me that person shouldn't be allowed to have children? That seems wrong.
The last point is who is making the judgement? I'd be questioning that part most of all. First, I don't trust most of the lawmakers I know. Secondly, it seems a slippery slope. Once you do this, what is next? Sterilizing people because of medical disorders? How about race? How about religion? Now its starting to feel like Nazi-ism.

Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now, lol. Just my two .02.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. Eugenics is an ugly practice. Also, how would one define the terms and conditions of such an arrangement? What is a "drug addict"? What is "child abuse"? If I smoke a joint then smack a kid trying to take my car, would the government be allowed to take my testicals? And why would it only apply to parents? Surely if they already have kids, the damage is done. Before you know it, people would be getting their badoobies zapped just for looking at a pack of cigarettes.

Answer 4

Does that include drugs like nicotine and alcohol, or are we only organising a witch hunt for selected junkies today?

And how do you define a "child abuser"?

Would that be a parent who has the audacity to tell a child "no" from time to time? Or one who fails to get a child the latest games console following another hysterical tantrum?

I need something a lot more specific before I set about fellas with long-nosed pliers and women with gaff hooks.

Answer 5

My God yes!!!! My sister recently adopted a crack-head's little girl, then an infant brother was found stuck to his car seat in his own excrement in an abandoned car. Four more siblings were located in foster care throughout the state, and this pathetic tramp has now had two more kids while in prison. She needs to be spayed!!!

I know of way too many borderline sociopathic teens who have two and three kids already, and have no intention or ability to take care of the babies. Spay or Neuter!!! For the bleeding hearts, do you have the guts to take care of all these damaged kids? Thought so!

Answer 6

Yes! I can't tell you how many of these kids my family has taken in and cared for! Kids with FASD, autism, OCD, hydrocephalus, microcephaly, bipolar disorder, and more plus kids who were abused and neglected by the "wonderful" parents. We don't need people like this reproducing! One of the mothers had 13 kids all addicted and with various medical and social problems. Others had 9 and 10. I know another who had children who she sold on the black market for $10,000 each to support her drug habit while my family took care of two of her other kids. and when she had them on a visit, her boyfriend raped one of the girls...a 2 yr old! we don't need this!

Answer 7

i'm surprised at how Christians and Atheists attack JW's for his or her ideals, the two attacking any nuance of their faith no count what it is. on the tip of the day, all religions have weird and wonderful ideals interior their doctrine. the only subjects absolutely everyone ought to truly care approximately with JW's are: a million. Blood - why? via fact human beings die needlessly over it 2. F&DS / Governing physique rule: why? via fact this will boost people to "god" status giving them a procedures too lots administration over the lives of contributors 3. shunning - exceedingly glaring why 4. 1914 - why? thoroughly fake. Undermines the objective of the scriptures with the help of turning out to be eisoteric formula that distract readers from the actual message of Christ each thing else.... who cares? All religions are loopy. Take out F&DS and you have seventh Day Adventists, take out 1914 and upload holiday trips you have baptists... and so on and so on. if JW's have been to offload the F&DS, the GB, 1914, Blood and shunning...... i may be all in toddler :D

Answer 8

The law currently states that you may not be sterilized against your will and many people and municipalities have been sued and lost for that very reason

Answer 9

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeS. There is research to back up why the fathers and mothers should be sterilized. They screw up the genes of their children.

Answer 10

Yes... in boiling water