Baby License???

Question

Ok before you all freak out just listen.
You need a certificate to get married, you need a license to drive, to practice medicine, to cross into other countries, etc. BUT, anyone, any couple, can pop out as many kids as they want or don't want and you don't need to do anything. The amount of kids that grow up today with drug addicted parents, in bad family environments, to underage mothers with fathers that don't want them, living on welfare and not getting anything from it, is ridiculous. I am sorry but you should be required by law to apply for a license to have a baby. Whatever idiot said its a human right to procreate was well an idiot. Not that the criteria needs to be all crazy, but maybe a stable job, without a history of domestic violence and drug addiciton would be a good jumping off point. illegal pregnancy could be averted by post conception application, but if denied application, you have two options abortion or get yoruself to meet the criteria or your baby goes adoption

Answer 1

This is a dangerous subject, although I completely agree with you, but where do we stop? That is a matter of taking procreation out of God's hands and it's very touchy. Do we start sterilizing those that have children and don't have a license?

I believe more in the concept of parenting classes. It should be a requirement in Highschool for all teenagers, just like Driver's Ed is now, and you get a completion certificate. Once you go on to college, you have to continue those classes just like English or Math and you have to complete them with a passing grade. It should be a core class. Once you are in that hospital it should be required to take a refresher class (whether you went to college or not) before you leave home with your new baby and refresher classes every year, just like a doctor or lawyer has to continue their education in order to maintain their license.

If you don't have your certificates from school and/or college and you have a baby, you should have to fulfill them regardless and until you do Child Services should do checkups every month or so. Yes, this would require HUGE amounts of money and time for everyone involved, but DANG, what are chidlren worth to people these days?

Abortion should be illegal and so should artificial insemination (and all of the other alternative means) BUT those who cannot have children should be able to adopt any child they want (within our own country) as long as they have their certificates and education in parenting. I know that sounds harsh but there are people out there who can't have kids and are spending THOUSANDS of dollars while we still have Millions of children in adoption status.

Those people who refuse to complete their parenting classes and continued education should have to put their children up for adoption, period.

I know it all sounds harsh but it's a lot easier to control something like that as opposed to having a license or not. You only get in trouble that way if you get caught. Requiring classes and certificates makes sure that you are already on the radar.

Answer 2

Wow, pretty scary how many people agree with the idea of the government controlling our personal family planning decisions, deciding who is worthy of procreation. Even if it were possible to implement, do you really feel it's the government's place to determine who is allowed to have children and who isn't? Why don't we just give up on free will altogether? Just because you don't think it's good for society or whatever, who's to say that unintelligent people or poor people don't have the same right to procreate as everyone else? What next, you propose that we should need a license to get a haircut, to spare the world of having to see mullets? And your solutions to "illegal" child-bearing are a) abortion or b) adoption, both of which would be a completely devastating and horrific thing to have forced upon someone - although your friend Adolf Hitler might approve of the idea.

Answer 3

Actually, it isn't a complicated question that goes beyond yes and no. The answer is simply no. If you want reasons, please read the following: The entire idea is impractical on too many grounds, from economic to social to ethical. The worst is the suggestion of forced sterilization which is nothing short than an invasion of privacy. What we need to do is have options for people. We could encourage people to get reversible sterilization in order to keep from producing unwanted children. We need to have education available to the community on the various topics of parenting. Other related things should exist, but a baby license is far beyond ridiculous.

Answer 4

They used to have this by law. It was called a marriage license. A woman was not allowed to keep a baby if she was not married and unwed pregnancy could get you a jail sentence. If they enforced that and found the fathers too, our country would be a lot different.

Answer 5

Well...you may have a point there...but...people drive without licenses all the time...people try to practice medicine without a license all the time (trust me...I know of several instances of that happening), it's not too difficulty to get one's hands on fake documents if a person is desparate enough, many people live together without every marrying. So basically, it really wouldn't make much of a difference.

Answer 6

I've always wondered just that. Now legislators are trying to pass a law that will make it illegal to breed or even posses an unaltered cat or dog without permit, but any moron can have a child. So many people will say that its not my decision to make, but who's money goes to support the children of so many deadbeat parents, and am I suppose to ignore the fact that many of these kids are neglected or abused. I grew up in a poverty infested area, and have seen firsthand the desperation and lack of hope some of thees kids have. C.P.S. is suppose to be there to determine who is fit and unfit, but I,ve seen them fail and f**k up time and time again.

Answer 7

We had to be "licensed" in order to adopt. During our homestudy, we went through financial, criminal, and health checks. Also, we had to attend adoption classes and meet with a pediatrician first. They had to visit our home to make sure it was decent, had running water, and was a safe neighborhood.

If I'd been able to conceive, no one would have ever asked us any of those questions.

Great idea hypothetically. I'll never happen. And I'm not so sure I agree with your consequences though.

Answer 8

I agree. But people DO drive without licenses, practice medicine illegally and sneak across borders. So a license requirement still wouldn't stop/slow down teen births, unintelligent parents, etc etc.

Answer 9

yes i agree to a point...it is sad to think of all those kids in foster home..but if you had to get a license think of all the people who can't have kids and adopting wouldn't be a choice for them.

Answer 10

Absolutely. People should have psychological tests along with drug testing and should have to prove financial responsibility before being allowed to have children.