A Parenting License?

If we get laws to regulate everything, we'll become like the old Soviet Union, where anything that wasn't prohibited was compulsory. Where does that leave freedom? I think we have too many laws on the books already, and that some people can't manage their lives as well as the majority expects, is just a given. You can't outlaw stupidity and incompetence (as we do more and more anyways) unless we intend to put more people into prison, than are on the outside (which is the way we are are headed anyway, with more than 1% of all adults being incarcerated). Also, even animals abuse their offspring, so what should make the human animals so different? ;-) Just because people think that we are so special, doesn't make us so!

It would never happen because having a baby is a right and it would be too easy to bring up false abuse case and that person would be put on the list wrongly.And how do we prevent them from having kids? Are they sterilized?Or is it abortion? Pretty soon the government is going too far.

(hehe, I wrote a 10 page research report on this last semester) This has been an issue for so many years now it's unbelievable..I know in order to adopt a child you need to go through all kinds of measures and interviews. I also think that you should have a license in order to raise a child and I'm sure if the issue's brought up over and over again sometime in the future this will be required. I personally don't believe it's right that because there's a certain number of the world who are completely irresponsible and neglegent about their children that everyone else has to suffer for their screw ups, but it needs to be done, right? They're creating vehicles with breathelizers in them, because so many people are caught driving under the ifluence they think this is better than just waiting for something to happen. (which is true, right? Better safe than sorry) Also, unfortunately a parenting course, or examination doesn't do much good. You can go and pass a test, you can take that course and do perfect in it. But when you have a child, your emotions change. Your hormones change. Male of female; the second a child is brought in to your life you see things so much differently. And even though that starts off as a beautiful thing, when you get angry that child suffers and the only thing anyone around you can do about it is complain and call anyone and everyone to help that child to get him out of harms way. And it's really a shame that the Government (both canadian and american; i say this 'cause i'm canadian, lol.) is so greedy in their finances that they don't want to spend the money to put a kid in to social services, or take them and put him or her in to foster care unless it's really really necessary. And I don't think they should wait to see it get worse. You've read stories about people who hit their children, nothing serious or too severe, but then one day they snap on this child and hit him with something harder than the palm of their hand. Yes, you should require a licence, but I think it should be paid for (by the person taking it), and it should be a fair amount of money. And if you're STILL that stupid to neglegently raise an innocent child, you should be the one to pay for it when they're taken away. The money that helps support your child should be garnished from your wages. Plain and simple.

I is a very interest kind of points !indeed,many parents treat their chindren badly .but a license maybe decrease the love between parents and children .So a license is useless

well a parenting class isnt ganna do any good. they wanna beat their kid the class aint ganna stop them. I think parents should be approved before they are able to have children. they need a psychological test among many others. that i think will make our kids alittle more safer and might stop atleast most of the abuse. if you get pregnant and you are found not mentally stable. i think the state should be awarded custody till you can get right. or atleast find some techniqe to lower the accidental pregnany rate because i BET you most of these abuse cases, only have kids bucasue they wound up pregnant. Not because they planned.

I agree with you, and yes there seems to be that a lot of parents as well as guardians of these poor little children abuse them. But the questions is this going to be stopped? I know it would be very hard to stop these abusive parents. You know what? I cannot find a solution to the problem, but to teach the would-be-parents what are their responsibilities as well as maybe there is some way the government could do to closely monitor the parents with records of abusing their children.

I think parenting classes throughout ones pregnancy should be required especially with first time parents. If the teacher spots a situation with possible trouble then I think it should be monitered. Being a parent is a tough job and there are no rule books. Young parents need guidance and some more than others. It would be a good thing if there were preventative steps to avoid neglect and abuse rather than wait for something horrible to happen.

I have been taking parenting classes since 1982! I think it should be required. It is one of the ways people can get there kids back if they are taken by the child protective services. Judges often do not get involved until there is a divorce! The CPS has weird policies too, like they do not believe children under 12 years of age, but they believe teenagers! I thought most people knew that teenagers are rarely happy with the way they are brought up! I guess one of the reasons the CPS does not act quickly in most cases, is that many people call them for revenge purposes and for other petty reasons! It is also ashame that there is so much money for foster parents, but not for natural parents who may need some time off or need money to send their kids to special classes. It really does take a village!

I have to agree with you 100% on the fact os all this child abuse (I have been reading hear on myLot) is very nauseating to say the least. I refuse to watch the news, and only rarely will I read the newspaper, for it seems like the only news in it all, is the horrible news of such. I'm not sure what can be done to stop child abuse, except maybe treat the abuser the same way they did the child. I know that too isn't possible. It does seems times have changed and the incidents of this is becoming more and more. Or maybe it's just the fact that it is more awareness surrounding it these days!

In order to stop child abuse the law needs to impose stronger penalty's against people that commit those kind of crimes.

I ask myself that all the time. Why do ones who hurt children have more rights? Children are small easy target's, and they can get by with it for as long as they can. I Pray that the laws get to where they are for the child. As of right now, I do not think that they are. All we can do is Pray for all the children in this world that has to live a life of HEll- (O)