You have to pass a test to drive a car but not to have a child.

@embhc8 (48)
United States
February 26, 2008 11:46am CST
This is a pretty controversal topic so I hope I am not offending anyone. I work at a crisis shelter for abused children and I have worked with children my enitre working career and I am just fed up with unfit parents. In today's society you have to complete a full written and practical exam just to get behind the wheel of a car which makes sense. With a vehicle you are putting others in danger and we have to make sure you can handle the responsibility. However any idiot can have a child and ruin their life which is just as detremental. Do I have a solution? NO and do I think that not everyone should have the right to have a family? NO and that is my problem what is the solution to this? So many children every day are abused neglected and killed due to unfit parents and the government and society can't do anything until the damage is done. This to me is thre greates unjustice to children.
2 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
26 Feb 08
I agree. I believe that everyone must take a course and pass a test before they are given a child. If it were up to me there would be some kind of contraceptive placed in the water an dafter you take the class & pass the test you get the "cure".
• United States
26 Feb 08
I agree with you completely. I know a few people that just have kid after kid and just completely dont know how to raise them and treat them like crap. I dont even want to go into details on one cause I could never stop. And sadly enough these people get preg time after time without even trying. It took me 2 years to get preg and I tried like hell. But then they go and pop out 3 in less then 2 years. I just dont get it really. I understand where you are coming from and I wish there was a solution. I would hate for any child to live that way.