Should there be requirements in order to have children?

[Deleted]

Just curious about people's stance on this.

If you apply for a mortgage the loaner want to know your financial situation, your family situation, pension plans, etc. etc. When you dont suffice, you dont get a mortgage. Why? Because its too big of a risk and it will get you in deep shit later down the road. You need licenses for everything. Guns, protests, driving a car, having a job. But not for something as huge as raising children.

Now im not saying having children is like getting a mortgage, but shouldn't there be some kind of laws/regulations/restrictions/rules about having kids? Not only are you opting for caring and raising for another human, your also gonna be paying a shitload of money in order to do so for the next 20-30 years.
Should a poor family have 8 kids for example? That the taxpayer has to pay for?
And what about kids suffering because their parents are total morons? Or mentally disabled? With a 90% assurance that their kids will also be that. And cute as it is, will cause a shitload of strain on the culture and social infrastructure of a country?
Or people just completely unfit for parenthood. Because they are criminals/psychopaths/pedofiles, etc. What about them?

Should having children be regulated in some kind of way?

[Revi]

No.

And for those who think yes, how could this be fairly enforced?

[Deleted]

In a perfect world, unfortunately you can't enact that requirement without breaking a bunch of human rights.

[Deleted]

I think a uterus is needed somewhere in the process.


Oh... not that kind of requirements ?

[Deleted]

Hell no, how would it be enforced even?

[potis]

What Felfury said.

It should be insanely regulated the way things are (diseases, overpopulation of certain areas, birth defects etc etc), but it wont happen anytime soon cause, human rights!

Everything is okay, whenever we reach whatever threshold, World War 3-4 will clean up the place.

[Uncle]

Yes: ensure that parents are not morons.

[Deleted]

Hell no, how would it be enforced even?

People would have to file for having a kid. Then people will get inspected, financially, psychologicly, etc.
Then they get an OK stamp to have children in their files.

When they enlist a child when its born their records get checked.
If they dont have an OK stamp, the child is put up for adoption.
For people with an OK stamp that cant have kids.

[Jtbrig7390]

If they dont have an OK stamp, the child is put up for adoption.

Because adoption is so much better then the loving parents it would have.....

real Answer: Nope humand rights and its none of anyones business.

[Deleted]

People would have to file for having a kid. Then people will get inspected, financially, psychologicly, etc.
Then they get an OK stamp to have children in their files.

When they enlist a child when its born their records get checked.
If they dont have an OK stamp, the child is put up for adoption.
For people with an OK stamp that cant have kids.

That's just plain out retarded.

[Deleted]

Yes there should - to many gets to be parents, just to fail miserably.
Since it is not a real possibility, I would suggest that all new parents gets education - a class they have to follow for the first few years. And if they don't show up they get to pay - and if it continues they get their kids taken away.
People really need to be more responsible when it comes to having kids.
You don't need a license to get kids, but you do to drive a car...

[Mackeith]

Nope humand rights and its none of anyones business.

I assume if this is your stance, then you do not think parents in any situation, should receive any form of benefits from their respective governments? Surely it goes both ways.

[Deleted]

That's just plain out retarded.

Why, you asked for a way to regulate it. We just brainstorming here.

[Crispin]

People would have to file for having a kid. Then people will get inspected, financially, psychologicly, etc.
Then they get an OK stamp to have children in their files.

When they enlist a child when its born their records get checked.
If they dont have an OK stamp, the child is put up for adoption.
For people with an OK stamp that cant have kids.

Geesh you'd make NK seem like a walk in the park.

How about we check up on the parents and if they fuck up remove the kid and find a foster family for him/her? you know like we do now.

[Deleted]

Why, you asked for a way to regulate it. We just brainstorming here.

Because you can't control if someone gets pregnant or not.

[Deleted]

Because you can't control if someone gets pregnant or not.

Would you avoid getting pregnant if you knew your kid was gonna be taken away from you after you had the hardship of carrying it for 9 months? Wanna bet you would try harder not to get pregnant?

It also works the other way around: You got 9 months to better your life and get an OK stamp.

[Kaleredar]

Here you go, OP.

Some nice classic science fiction reading, pertinent to the subject at hand.

2BR02B

[Deleted]

Geesh you'd make NK seem like a walk in the park.

How about we check up on the parents and if they fuck up remove the kid and find a foster family for him/her? you know like we do now.

Nobody wants a 8 year old.
Damage is already done by then.

[Djinni]

People would have to file for having a kid. Then people will get inspected, financially, psychologicly, etc.
Then they get an OK stamp to have children in their files.

When they enlist a child when its born their records get checked.
If they dont have an OK stamp, the child is put up for adoption.
For people with an OK stamp that cant have kids.

Sounds fine in principle...
The problem is it is too open to abuse and like any system has a fatal flaw.... its built ontop of another system

[Revi]

People would have to file for having a kid. Then people will get inspected, financially, psychologicly, etc.
Then they get an OK stamp to have children in their files.

When they enlist a child when its born their records get checked.
If they dont have an OK stamp, the child is put up for adoption.
For people with an OK stamp that cant have kids.

If those people with the "OK" stamp could raise like 40.000 forcefully taken children each, maybe the math could add up.