A parent’s license

So the other day I was reading an Article about Tamra Keepness.

Somebody made a comment something along the lines of “people need to go to classes and get licenses to use cars, and yet anybody can have kids.”

The more I thought about it the more a parent’s license seemed like a really good idea. It could cut off so many problems before they even become problems.

I’m not exactly sure how it could work, but I’m in no position to implement it, so somebody can worry about actual enforcement. I’m really just brain storming at this point.

Something along the lines of needing to get the license upon becoming pregnant and if you don’t qualify for the license for any reason the pregnancy would then be terminated. (I know its harsh, but it may be for the greater good.)

So now we have to make the rules and requirements for actually obtaining the parent’s license.

1. The parents must be able to emotionally and financially support the child.
This would basically stop people who had mental disorders or something from having children, since it is inevitable that since they cannot care for the children they will eventually be taken away from the parent’s anyway.
As for being able to financially support the child I’m sure some mathematical equation can be found. It could account for the income of both parents, the number of children this would bring them to and most likely some variables I’m not thinking about at the moment.

2. Neither parent can currently be on parole or been convicted of an offense in the last lets say five years
This one should be self explanatory. No more criminals breeding more criminals.

3. Both parents must have a minimum High School education
How can parents who haven’t even completed a basic education raise kids who are going to make anything with their lives?

4.Neither parent can be an alcoholic or addicted to drugs
Plain and simple, how many child die, or are beaten or simply completely ignored because there parents have substance abuse problems?

5.Neither parent can be on welfare
Both parents don’t necessarily need jobs. A wealthy businessmen and a stay at home mom would work fine, or one person home on disability while the other works would be fine as long as they comply with rule 1.
This rule is to weed out the people who are on welfare simply for the sake of being lazy and staying on welfare instead of getting a job, because what inspiration would kids have to make something of themselves if they grow up around a family who is fine doing nothing and barely scrapping by.

6.Both parents must attend a parenting class
Plain and simple, parents would learn how to be parents.

7.Both parents must be known
No whores constantly having kids who are all with different men(she thinks but sleeps around to much to be sure)

That is all the rules I can really think of at the moment, I’m sure more can be added later.

Now for how this will help the world.

Just think about it most of the people who would end up doing nothing with their lives will never even be given the chance. All the poverty and crime ridden ghettos could possibly be empty with a few short generations. Only people who can raise children effectively would be allowed to, and the parents who would raise nothing but problems for society wouldn’t be able to. All the useless people would be gone in a few generations and the people who aren’t just wasting air will be able to live in a possibly almost crime free world. This would also help even out the world’s population, its been going up like crazy forever now, this could at least make it balance if not go down.

And think about outside of Canada as well. If all the people barely able to support themselves in Africa weren’t allowed to have kids, all the poverty in Africa could possibly end within 100 years with their horrible life expectancy.

I’m not saying this is do able. There is so much human rights shit against it that it is almost impossible to picture this coming into effect. But just think for a minute, wouldn’t the world be a better place? Maybe the rights of a few should be sacrificed for the good of the many.