Do you feel that there should be some sort of licensing process for having children - sooo soo many children suffer because of useless parents?

[Anonymous]

Rates of child abuse and neglect are 5 times higher for children in families with low socioeconomic status > https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/fastfact.html

More than 600,000 children are abused in the U. S each year. CACs investigated 247,543 cases involving sexual abuse allegations in 2022. Three-fourths (76%) of victims are neglected > https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/national-statistics-on-child-abuse/

The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations – losing on average 5 children every day to child abuse and neglect. Substance abuse and child maltreatment are tragically and undeniably linked. https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/

4 million child maltreatment referral reports received in 2021. Child abuse reports involved 7.2 million children. 90.6% of victims are maltreated by one or both parents. 446,838 victims (76%) are neglected. https://americanspcc.org/child-maltreatment-statistics/

These statistics are ALL within the USA alone.
So multiple that by thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions for the world.

And then consider the 18% & 36% of people who grow up in these households ARE prone to criminal activity. So essentially stop the abuse before it even starts by making it required to be licensed to have children and you'd drop crime by 18 to 36% across America

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By licensing I mean that there would be a required training and educational program no different than if you were getting licensed for your driver's license, a boating license, a gun license. If you don't know how such licenses work then you must be living under a rock

[Anonymous]

No. However sad it is that children are abused, people are always going to have children, planned or not, so what should be done if someone without a license gets pregnant and refuses to get a license? Force them to have an abortion against their will? Take their kids away so taking a little baby away from its mother because she doesn’t have a license from the government that she’s allowed to mother her own child? And who decides what the criteria for being granted a license are? The government? Social workers? Experts? What if experts have conflicting opinions or research results? What if the decision makers are corrupt? It also wouldn’t stop children from being abused anyway because there are lots of adopted children who are abused or SAd by their adopted parents even though they went through home studies, interviews, parenting classes etc and were approved to adopt. Child abuse isn’t due to parents not knowing it’s wrong or illegal and it’s far from only those with criminal records who end up abusing children. Most people know it is illegal and will hide any such tendencies from authorities and of course will say and do what they know is expected from them to get a ”license”. Also if people don’t want to go through the process of getting a license or think they won’t get approved then somw of them are likely going to have children in secret and hide their existence from the authorities. That would make those kids even more vulnerable as nobody would even know they exist.

[Asker]

You overthink nothing of importance. A simple parenting course not unlike what you have to take for a driver's license. If you fail the parenting course and then you don't get the license just like if you fail a driver's test.

As for if they have children without a license well and there's many options. Fines, jail time, removing the children. The fact that they can't the license means they're a danger, not a parent

[Bethany22]

Yes that's a very good idea. Divorce custody rights examine the parents' ability to raise the kids so closely, so why can't they do it for people becoming parents.

[JustMeQ2]

No. This is one of the rights that no one can define who and how to use it.


Instead of limiting them. We need to educate them and help them get better socioeconomic status. This is what they as individuals need to do.


We as a society need to make sure socioeconomic status that's below a good living standard doesn't exist.
At the moment corporations use people with low socioeconomic status to get more profits. this is what we need to abolish and not limit people's joy.

[Asker]

You overthink. A simple parenting course not unlike what you have to take for a driver's license. If you fail the parenting course and then you don't get the license just like if you fail a driver's test.

As for if they have children without a license well and there's many options. Fines, jail time, removing the children. The fact that they can't the license means they're a danger, not a parent

[JustMeQ2]

First, you have to go in deep when talking about things this important.

I am for parents going to the appropriate psychologist, no one is born ready to be a parent.

Since you mentioned the driving licenses. Who drives like in driving school after they get the license?
No one. You get the license and drive according to the local driving cloture. The same will happen if we create a parenting license.

We need to make sure that parents have the know-how and the means to be good parents. If we give just the one, we will just fill the prisons.

[lightbulb27]

yes, there is no training.

govt though... blech... govt, they screw up most of what they touch. need some solution of some kind, immediately.

children suffer, and so many aren't alive due to these problems.

[exitseven]

Yes, and the welfare system must be changed so that having illegitimate children is not rewarded.

[In_Trance]

That hasn't worked out with stupid people operating motor vehicles.