Should parenting be licensed?

I'm not sure how much you know about the American South, so I will presume not much so I can give you an example. In the South, the education rates are terribly low, obesity rates are terribly high. So many accidental births happen, and the parents are not educated. Plus the only thing they understand is god, and they don't realize that he isn't going to give them shit loads of money, and make their kid a genius. Now, I am generalizing here, but a lot of it is true. They have a saying down there- The closer the kin, the better the skin. Do you want these people to breed? I sure don't.
 
As bad of an idea this may be, something needs to be done about these irresponsible people like Angel Adams who is a woman living in South Florida and has 16 kids by 5 different men and is living on welfare and Desmond Hatchett, who lives in Tennessee and has 30 kids by 11 women and is working a minimum wage job. His baby mamas get and average of $1.64 per month in child support.

Do I even need to mention Octomom?

The fucked up thing about this is that neither he, nor Adams intend to stop having children, and Adams was held in contempt for refusing to answer the judge when she asked if she intended on getting pregnant again.

3 years ago Hatchett made the news because he had 21 kids and wasn't able to support them and said that he wasn't going to have anymore. Today he has 30. Adams was in the news years ago when she and her 15 kids were living in a hotel room paid for by welfare because she was evicted. She had the fucking nerve to be indignant and demand that someone give her a handout and pay for all of her children.

It is the children who will end up suffering the most and these god damn parasites dont give a fuck. The mothers already knee about Hatchett's many children and they didn't care, they still let him impregnate them, so they are just as bad as any man that has been knocking Adams up like clockwork.

There are many more people like them out there, these two were just the ones who made the news.

So if mandatory sterilization is a bad idea, then what do you propose we do about this situation? Between stupid people like Adams and Hatchett and the obesity increasing each year and now being a claimable disability, our economy will continue to take a hit even if it is showing signs of improvement. Some states in the South have reported running out of food stamps, so what would you suggest as a viable solution?

I understand that a child may not grow up to be like their bum parents, but that is a long time to wait. It doesnt help if the parents are getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant every 9 months either. These are the exact people that don't need to be breeding and I'll support any method that will keep them and those like them from doing so in the future.

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First, I would like to note that those incidents were in the South, further proving my point. Second, if mandatory sterilization never becomes a thing for people like that, then many kids won't have a good home, because of the stupidity of their parents, then they will more than likely end up similar to them. Thank you for finding those stories, thy are good arguments.
 
I came across Hatchett's story while checking my email. Before I clicked the link to my inbox, I saw the headline "Man with 30 kids needs a break from Child Support."

After that, I started a topic on my forum about it and decided to look into Adam's story and found an update for this year when she was tasered by a cop when she was 8 months pregnant with her 16th child.

Anyway, I cant agree with parents being fined for taking their kids on a vacation before the holidays. Many working parents can only afford to go away in the off season and many opt to work during the holidays because theyd earn more money.

My parents took us away during the school year but they made sure that we got our lessons for the week ahead, made sure that we submitted our homework and made sure that we not only did our classwork but that there were no tests that had to be taken either. Whether or not we got to go away was contingent upon these factors and we HAD to get a good grade on our previous report cards as well, so there was really no room for dropping the ball and slacking off where vacations were concerned. They told us when the next vacation was, where we were going and what we had to do to go there. If they had to work to earn money to take us, then it was only fair that we had to work hard to earn it.

Many parents take an active role in their children's school life, mine went above and beyond to make sure that we were good with our school work and kept in contact with our teacher, so that they knew we were doing good and earned our vacation.  

When I started both junior high and high school my mother, who was a single mom at the time because my father was never around and disappeared after my brother was born, told me to get all of my teachers numbers as well as the dean and principal, on my first day or she would get them herself wearing the most embarrassing outfit she could find and would make sure that everyone knew she was my mother.

My mother was involved with my school work even though she was working a full-time job and attended college full-time while taking care of 2 kids and her elderly grandmother who was getting older and losing her mind as she did so. When she met my stepfather 2 years after I started junior high, that behavior continued, and I knew that both of them were serious, so I didn't mess around.

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GracefulAssassin said:
Or the government could get dark and make the person get a vasectomy or tie there tubes. In the earlier 1900's, the US government did that to people who were deemed too stupid, or something along those lines, to have a kid. It was called the Eugenics movement. So it already did kind of happen, why not do it again?
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I've had a lot of history classes, but I've never herd of the Eugenics movement.
 
Yup, they do not teach it in school. It's freaking stupid; just because it looks bad to America, they don't teach it. Fucking bullshit.

And I wouldn't know about leaving school- I have almost perfect attendance.
 
To be honest, not everyone is qualified to be a parent. If parents are licensed first, then may be we could minimize child abuse quite a bit.

I do think this is a good idea.
 
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