Should people need a licence to have children?

[shoeshine]

YESYEESYESYES! They BLOODY WELL SHOULD!

 

I had this idea about 4 years ago and I couldn't agree with myself more!

 

Giving someone else life has such a large impact on the world it's insane! Most parents are FAR from capable of educating and raising a child, so caught up in their own views and so much other ****. Lots of parents treat children like property and its depressing as hell!

 

I'm generally against licences, efforts to control people generally don't solve the problems; but we live in times where licences are the norm, so not having one for potentially the bigest impact anyone can make on the world seems insane!! People need to be prevented from taking other people's lives for granted because it causes WAY too many problems.

 

It's always nice to know that SF has its share of loving, caring and giving personalities when someone's back's against the wall, innit?

 

[splodgeyAl]

No. Maybe they should drink less. Just a thought.

 

i drink pretty much every day - zero kids. your point?

[splodgeyAl]

most!

 

In 2005, there were 39,804 conceptions by under-18s in England, a rate of 41.3 per thousand.

 

These figures are twice as high as in Germany, three times as high as in France and six times as high as in the Netherlands.

 

Hundreds more girls aged 15 or younger are getting pregnant despite a multi-million pound Government campaign.

 

Official statistics show that 7,464 girls under the age of 16 – some as young as 13 — fell pregnant in England in 2005, a rise of 283 on 2004. The age of consent is 16.

 

Nearly six in 10 ended in abortion.

 

The numbers translate to an increase in the rate of under-age pregnancies per 1,000 girls of four per cent, the biggest single annual increase for 10 years.

 

Among the under-18s, pregnancy figures rose in 2005 to 39,683 from 39,593, although the pregnancy rate for this age group fell by one per cent.

 

and in france, family drinking is "the norm", and in the netherlands, soft drugs are tollerated. your point?

[mel77]

and in france, family drinking is "the norm", and in the netherlands, soft drugs are tollerated. your point?

 

they wern't alcohol related pregnancy figures, they were teenage pregnancy figures as we are the highest in Eurpoe, someone wanted to know.

 

ok!

[Bizzy_Lizzy]

Cant say i should have a license to have children.

I was pregnant at 16 so what? My son is loved, has a loving family, i don't have a council house and never have, we both work to pay for him he is always clean and clothed. Please explain why i should have a license for him?

[Googleberry]

Got it in one.....it's an ancient fruit discovered recently in, I think, South America shortly to be introduced into supermarkets in the UK....

 

It tastes like a strawberry, but the outer seeds are buried deeper within the fruit.....or something like that, anyway.

In which case, no!

[Savannah2]

i drink pretty much every day - zero kids. your point?

 

There are people that are responsible drinkers and those that are not.

 

You probably are a responsible drinker, just like the majority are.

[splodgeyAl]

There are people that are responsible drinkers and those that are not.

 

You probably are a responsible drinker, just like the majority are.

 

w00t! not often i get called responsible

[tomarse]

when someone's back's against the wall, innit?

 

 

Are you talking about homophobia? Sorry you lost me when you said that.. lol!