The discuss on licensing parents could be a mandatory decision for all people who want to raise children and probably supported by government for following reasons.
Firstly, licensing parents who want to raise children may be good for population control because it may cause fewer children to be born and result in a reduction in overpopulation. Furthermore, control human population would be helpful in reducing the stress of limited resources. For example, over 50 million kids have died due to hunger and malnutrition in the last 30 years and approximate 10,000 starving child deaths a day (Istvan, 2014), which implies there may be fewer children dead from hunger if population could be controlled by parental licensing and thus we can provide better living standard to current and future people.
We license people who perform dangerous activities to others such as drivers and thus some evidences show the successful of driver license in lessening road accidents and injuries among young drivers (Berg, 2006). Recently, there are more than half a million children damaged by parental abuse or neglect every year (Lafollette, 1980). Assuming that, parenting is also a dangerous activity that will do harm things to children and it need to be licensed because it may prevent children being harmed by their parents. Currently, children do not have a right to …show more content…
However, parental licensing does not mean blocking people rights to have children but to raise children which means children as our future may allowed to have rights to be respected by parents. Moreover, some argue that licensing parents will not ensure children are safe because licensing drivers does not mean there is no car accident. However, licensing dangerous activities will not only protect others but also protect themselves and thus people all have responsibility to respect others’ life, even their
Firstly, licensing parents who want to raise children may be good for population control because it may cause fewer children to be born and result in a reduction in overpopulation. Furthermore, control human population would be helpful in reducing the stress of limited resources. For example, over 50 million kids have died due to hunger and malnutrition in the last 30 years and approximate 10,000 starving child deaths a day (Istvan, 2014), which implies there may be fewer children dead from hunger if population could be controlled by parental licensing and thus we can provide better living standard to current and future people.
We license people who perform dangerous activities to others such as drivers and thus some evidences show the successful of driver license in lessening road accidents and injuries among young drivers (Berg, 2006). Recently, there are more than half a million children damaged by parental abuse or neglect every year (Lafollette, 1980). Assuming that, parenting is also a dangerous activity that will do harm things to children and it need to be licensed because it may prevent children being harmed by their parents. Currently, children do not have a right to …show more content…
However, parental licensing does not mean blocking people rights to have children but to raise children which means children as our future may allowed to have rights to be respected by parents. Moreover, some argue that licensing parents will not ensure children are safe because licensing drivers does not mean there is no car accident. However, licensing dangerous activities will not only protect others but also protect themselves and thus people all have responsibility to respect others’ life, even their