Why do you have to pass a test to drive a car but not to have children ?

Question

Society demands that you reach certain standards before you can do certain things - for example, you have to demonstrate your proficiency in a driving test before being allowed to drive a car. Would it not therefore make sense for prospective parents to have to pass a test (or at the very least receive some training or teaching) before having children ? Look around you - even on yahoo answers - and ask yourselves : would the world be a better place without some of these people ? Should they be allowed to have childen ?

Answer 1

As someone who has had a rather crap upbringing, since being emancipated, devoted there studies and career to looking after abused and neglected children and young people and, most recently had my firstborn and only child born prematurely and pass away... I don't know the answer to your question but it's one I ask myself every day.

We talk about the right to have children all to often without balancing the right of that child to be afforded love, nurturing and safety.

I'll be looking forward to seeing the response you get.

Answer 2

Just go for it! And don't do like the person a few answers above said and have someone sit in with you for the first few times....that's what you've had during lessons - just putting off being on your own in the car will make getting in the car on your own more scary. Best to just jump in on your own and drive! When I picked my car up a couple of weeks after I passed my test I rang one of my mates and sorted out to go round hers, because I wanted my first solo drive to be to go somewhere specific that I was familiar with the route to. OK I was really really scared and it was strange being in the car on my own for the first time but I put the radio on (quiet though) and just did exactly what I'd been taught in lessons. Now, 7 months later, it feels strange having someone in the car with me, I'm so used to being in on my own. I didn't get P plates....OK some people will be more patient because they know you are a new driver, but the rest will either not know what the P plate means or think you're still a learner, or will know exactly what it means and take it as a cue to try to intimidate you Good luck! If you weren't capable of driving you wouldn't have passed!!

Answer 3

You are the first other person I know of who has also wondered that!THANK YOU! A license to bear children! And make it tough! I saw a bumper sticker that I loved; " Its easier to change a condom than a diaper". I simply do not understand it either.You crash your car you can hurt,maybe kill a few people.You shirk your responsibility to raise a contributing member of society, the potential for harm is far greater. Actual regulation of breeding is impossible (ask China) but how about this;Instead of a lot of the other nonsense we dump on kids in school, focus on informing them as to what having kids involves. The time, the money, the surrendering of self and selfish things. Show them the not so pink and fluffy side; scare em! Tell them its another 10+ years of school with no vacation. Forget the war on drugs. Start the war on useless breeders!

Answer 4

i agree.
some people should not have kids. or be allowed to have kids.
and a test might filter that out.
but like a previous poster, how would that be regulated?

they are just trying to get kids having intercourse with protection.

and then....
even though you have to take a test to drive a car, you still get people on the roads that don't know how to drive properly (generally people who own nice cars for some strange reason).

so even if there was a test to have children, there would no doubt still be parents that should not have children. or even people will be getting test certificates on the underground.

you bring up an interesting question.

Answer 5

Its an individual thing from what ur saying. As for driving test, u dun actually need to pass a test to drive. Lots of youngsters are driving before they can even have a license. Same goes for having kids....it's how responsible a person can be, most of them just dun think about what their doing. So, all they normally do is blaming it on others, mostly their parents, govt, education, etc bt never themself. Whether to have kids or not, can't be controlled, u can teach them to understand, bt it depends on how they absorb into their peanut brain.

Answer 6

I tell you something,if i had a test on how to bring up my kids i would never of had any!When i did my driving test it gave me a preview of what driving a car was like,if i had a preview of the hassle,cost,mess....i would have seriously thought about having 4 kids(i love them really)...by the way you don't need a licence for a dog.

Answer 7

i do agree but i dont know where they would start and life just is not that sipmle, i think that some parents would pass a test but long turm could not be able to cope and some times i think that there sould just be more help out there for all parents such as free classes and support

Answer 8

Having had children (well my wives had them I was just involved in the process), and met other children, I feel that there are some
parents should have been 'put-down at birth' and yes not enough is done to teach parenting skills.

Answer 9

Driving is seen as a privilege that must be earned and can be revoked. Having children is pretty much a human right. (Although can be revoked by the government as well.)

Answer 10

Does giving a drivers test cure all bad driving? Of course not. And giving a parent test will do no better.