Should you need a licence to have children?

scarlet

I think a lot of your answers are from people thinking you want to ban less well off people from having kids. This is NOT what you are saying, because children can be brought up brilliantly with love and care by poor families.

What you are objecting to is the parents who have children without really wanting to bring up a family. Those who are just slapdash with contraception and couldn't care less about their children, and breed like rabbits (usually with several different children to several different fathers) then let the kids run wild and do whatever the heck they like with no parental care or nurturing whatsoever.

The question as I understand it does not relate to wealth, rather the ability to look after and give a loving upbringing to children. Some people (rich and poor) give years of thought and consideration to the question of whether to have children. Other people just can't be bothered to use contraception or see having children as 'something to do' for the short term, then don't want the responsibility of actually bringing them up, so the child becomes neglected.

I think this is what you are getting at, am I right?

blogsjulie

kids need hugs and love not loads of money.

gilly g

What you are saying is that people who need state help are all bad parents and this just isnt true. They are just people who have landed on bad times. All benefit claimants arent scroungers! Just like all the rich arent good parents.
People with stupid opinions should have to have this compulsory injection in my opinion!

manda

you dont have kids do you !

mrsslocombespussy

Firstly money doesn't necessarily make a good parent,you've only to look at the children of the rich and famous to see that.

Who will decide when you have earned the right to have a baby?

Would it stop at income?

What if they decided to limit it to only those who are of a certain class, height, weight,colour or religion.....I'm thinking don't even open that can of worms its only 60 years since we had a world war over one guy who thought like that.

izzy

To answer your question, no. And did you think about what would happen if those income qualified people suddenly lost all their money? Would that mean their children would have to be taken away or worse gotten rid of? Money isn't guaranteed to last forever. And plenty of rich or middle class parents kill their children too (often when the money situation starts to go down hill and they feel they can no longer give them "quality" life, a man killed his twin girls over financial problems even though he was originally well off). I have to agree, this is way too much of a Big Brother or Hitler type policy. I know it's sad to see poor children, but money doesn't make the world go 'round.

Same_but_different

Well, I'm sure your intentions are honourable, but have you thought about who would do the choosing? How would you stop the government of the day imposing a political agenda, or deciding that actually they didn't want low income, dustbin men to have more than one child and doing forced stelirisation? How would you stop religious groups having their say?

Really what you're suggesting is a slipperly slope towards Eugenics....look it up....you should note the references to Hitler....

tama-chan ^-^

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NO
It really doesn't matter, AT ALL. Even if a liscence is required, people will still do it without one. It's just like drinking and smoking, everyone does it even underage.
If you don't like the amount of kids below the poverty line, adopt them and take care of them yourself.

tucden89

Um . . . Paging Big Brother?

Karen B

Who would decide when you had enough income.
Better idea would be for the government to start looking after people in their own country before anyone else, that way we could try and lessen poverty and homelessness here.

Sammmi

i think that biggest crap idea ever. money dosent buy everything. a good perents is someone how love, care, fight for there kid. i was brought with perents how had crap all money ive got 3 bros and 2 sis we got brought up fine we where happy cos we got love all around and we got food in our tummys that all we cared about we dint care that we where poor we just knew we where loved that all we cared about.
u can be richest piece of sh.. around but not be a good perent. everyone is different so we cant class all the poor sh.. not good perents that not true at all and we cant say all the rich pepole are good perents that not true either cos there got money.

George A

Before Clinton's Welfare Reform Act in the US, there were some girls and women on welfare popping kids out 1 or 2 times a year just so they could get an increase in their welfare check.
I started my family when I was 21- looking back now, my wife (now ex) & I did a pretty good job of raising our 2 sons, but damn- it was really frustrating at times trying to figure out what was wrong until they were old enough to talk so they could tell you what was wrong. Back in 1983, I would have sold the farm for exceptional parenting classes (or an Owner's Manual) when my first was born!!

Fontofall

Why not go further than this? Have genetic and fitness to breed tests done on people before they are of breeding age and just sterilise those not suitable.

robert c

I agree!It has been known for some time that children born to mothers of low intelligence are more likely to be the next generation of petty criminals!
Saying that!Statistics also bear out that children who have no role model such as a stable long term father also descend into petty crime!

fritya56

excellent suggestion , excellent ! especially these days . nice to see someone who looks at things in a practical manner .

barnzy

i think thats a good idea

captain_cheesedick

Yes. I've been saying it for years.

it's not just the financial burden - it's the fact that idiots are doing the most breeding which will result in a global population of morons. We're half way there already - I mean look at the average "intelligence" shown by users of this website...

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