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So many people have tossed around this "parenting license" idea that I wonder why it's never been seriously proposed. It strikes me as the sickest kind of irony that you have to have a license to drive or have a dog but any idiot can have a kid, regardless of their capacity to care for that kid or raise them to be a responsible human being. Is it because procreating is a biological imperative? We regulate other aspects of procreation - abortion, prostitution, etc. - why ccan't we regulate birth itself? Of course, who am I to draw the line - my parents should never EVER have been allowed to have kids, but here I am and I turned out okay. Of course, my parents never prayed instead of taking me to the doctor.
Cases like this are sad, not least because you know the parents really do love their kids. It's a shame they just don't love them enough to give up their ideological beliefs. It's amazing what kind of misery results when people are incapable of admitting that they could be wrong.
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"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France
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