Dont you think parenting should be licensed?

Question

How many of you can relate to this?

New blood joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
through constant pain disgrace
a young boy learns their rules

with time the child draws in
this whipping boy done wrong
deprived of all his thoughts
the young man struggles on and on he's known
oo a vow onto his own
that never from this day
his will they'll take away

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been


they dedicate their lives
to running all of his
he tries to please them all
this bitter man he is
throughout his life the same
he's battled constantly
this fight he cannot win
a tired man they see no longer cares
the old man then prepares
to die regretfully
that old man it was me

Answer 1

I think that you should be required to get a license to reproduce. We already have too many people in the world anyway, so we certainly don't need anymore bad ones who were raised by people with poor parenting skills.

But, in order to make parenting and reproduction a licensable thing, you'd first have to figure out how children should be raised. Everyone has their own idea. Some of them are great, some are terrible. There's no one right way. If there was a licensing program for parenthood, I think it should focus on:

A. Do you have the financial resources to adequately provide for a child?

B. Do you understand how children's mind's work? (Maybe make all people who want to have a kid take a child psychology class or something)

Answer 2

Parenting should not be licensed because we could not come to an agreement on what standards make good parenting. Parenting should be upgraded through educational efforts in schools and churches.
My simplistic theme to any parental education would be that we need to overcome selfishness. The child's needs are important. Then we get into what the child truly needs..... many will start disagreeing on points here. I will say that the child's primary need is to love God. The parent's job is to slowly help the child decrease a need/dependence for the parents and increase a need/dependence on God.

Answer 3

i can relate, but the thing is i have a rebel soul. just like james hetfield - who sings this. all that restrictiveness certainly didn't quelch his ambition to prevail.... and apparently he has! children need a certain level of restriction to learn boundaries - but apparently this song takes the restrictiveness to an extreme. if you think about it, you are suggesting that the government restrict the people when it comes to the choice of becomming a parent. that is ironic, considering what the song is about. we are all dealt a certain hand and it's up to each of us to do the best we can with it. there are some horrible parents out there, but the best we can do is overcome it and vow to do better with our own children.

Answer 4

Heavens, no - one more thing for the government to screw up. We've seen how well they've done with licensing drivers. And doctors. And licensing marriage.

Start by making them license politicians and see how well that works. Then perhaps licensing prostitution. Then maybe we can talk about licensing reproduction.

Answer 5

That would be awesome. You need a license for everything else.

Answer 6

METALLICA. I wish however unpractical as it may be.