Would you support a parenthood licence?

Here's the answers in more detail...

Yes -

This means you support having to go through tests and/or examinations before someone is given a licence that allows them to become a parent.

No -

This means you support the right for anyone to have a child.

No, except for in certain circumstances -  

This means that you don't support a parenthood licence, but you also support that notion that some people can have the right to have children taken away. This would be under certain circumstances, such as paedophiles, people with other serious criminal convictions, serious health issues, and so on.

Other -

Use your imagination

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Myself, I can see the advantages, but I think it would be a bad idea on the whole.

Stupid people really need to reproduce less. That or their stupid offspring shouldn't have the "survival of the fittest" natural law removed for them.

Point being, there should be a lot less stupid people in some way.

That is a very good question actually. On one hand, I think having a baby should be something everyone should have the right to. On the other hand, if having a license could stop most of the problems that we see in society today regarding children and parents (abuse, unfit parents, etc.), then I would definitely like to see that. Although I suppose it's not actually the means I like, just the end...

No. While I think it would be a great idea... since there are a lot of bad parents out there.

It would infringe on peoples rights.

The only exception I'd see is pedophiles. Who I'm fairly certain couldn't have kids anyway based on the terms of their parole.

Besides, only REALLY stupid people probably couldn't fake their way through the test... and what's the enforcement? If your pregnant but don't get a license the state forces you to have an abortion?

If it's just "they take your baby away at the hospital, people just won't go to the hospital and even worse... won't take their children to the hospital... or enrole them in schools etc.

You mean eugenics?

That was once a very popular idea until the *ahem* unpleasantness. 

How exactly would you enforce this?

Yes I support it, I think the rules should be somewhat lax though. As long as you can support a child (food, roof over their head) don't excessivly drink and do drugs, then yeah.

A chavvy couple that want to have a kid so they can get benefits is just disgusting and shouldn't be allowed ....

Eugenics is a great idea, just like communism. Sadly it shares a lot more with communism than just the good idea part.

This is what I am saying. If you have a cheetah that runs 20mph instead of 60, it would die off and have a very small chance of reproducing. If it does reproduce then its children would probably die off. The point is, any cheetah that runs 20mph instead of 60 is doomed. The 20mph cheetahs would most certainly would not be outnumbering the 60mph runners and they certainly wouldn't be breeding more than the 60mph ones either.

That's the best "slow" metaphor I could come up with. I don't think we should restrict births per se, but we should definitely lax back on preventing survival of the fittest. I know that sounds horrible, but face it. We're here because of survival of the fittest, and in the past century we have started to eliminate it almost thoroughly.

Yes, far to many kids are being born. We need something to slow this population growth down and making it harder to have kids is the first step.

For faking the test, it would be like a drivers licence. You can't actually get one until you've had lots of practice and you're good at driving, otherwise it' just dangerous. I would imagine that a parents licence were handed you would have to attend a certain amount of parenting lessons, have an evaluation of your competence made and someone would assess the environment you intend to raise them in. Or something along those lines.

As for enforcing it, I'm not sure how it would be done I'm afraid, at this stage it is purely a hypothetical situation. Maybe this part of the discussion will develop later.