by Omnitir » Mon 08 Aug 2005, 22:18:38
No restrictions on the number of children parents can have, but serious licensing on being a parent.
Here’s the way I think things should work.
We need to completely change they way society looks at raising children. Being a parent shouldn’t be something people to for some personal fulfilment or a welfare payout (like it is now), but more like an honoured career, held with the utmost respect. People with careers as parents would be held in a similar high regard as other high skilled professions. Becoming a parent needs to be something attainable only by those with the strongest ambition and determination.
To become a parent, you must first spend many years of your life studying how to do so. Then, qualified parents may apply for parenting licenses, which would be a similar process to applying for a high-end job - difficult to succeed at. Once a person is sufficiently trained, qualified and licensed, then they are allowed to have children. Parents are now given a level of support unprecedented in the modern world.
I believe the outcome of this would not only by a controlled and sustainable population, but generations of children being raised properly with all the support and opportunities the modern world can offer. The end result of this would be parents that know what the hell they are doing and do everything possible to raise intelligent well-adjusted children, parents that don’t abuse their power as guardians of future generations, and generations of people that aren’t mostly dickheads. And of course a sustainable world population that would lead to the end of poverty and world hunger.
Essentially, I believe that if humanity learnt to raise future generations properly, instead of the bullshit we carry on with now, then the future would be some kind of utopia.
Given the world we live in, it should not be basic a human right to reproduce. We should have lost that right when we allowed our population to explode.