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| Should prospective parents have their homes checked by the authorities before being given permission to have children? |
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Asked 3 years ago
by magicedars  United Kingdom |
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What would the authorities be checking ?
If you adopt a cat from cat rescue over here, they check for a suitable home. It would seem logical that children deserve at least as much respect as our cats.
This is probably controversial, but I often wonder why, when you need a license to drive, a licence to fish, a licence to own a gun (if you can get one these days) and even a licence to watch TV, you don't need any kind of proof of parenting ability before you can breed.
Yes, I know it goes against folks human rights, but what about the rights of the kids born into unsuitable homes, who often end up dead or abused.
If you are found guilty of animal abuse, you are banned from keeping another.
If you abuse your kid, you csn just breed another one :(
Shades of 1984. They don't do that in England do they Asroc?
How many of the great leaders of the world started out in humble beginnings and how many of those homes would have been approved by your bureaucrats as suitable for a child?
Forget it, never work.
Sorry if I did not come across clearly.
I was not meaning to refer to the income level or ecomonic status of the homes.
My thoughts were more towards looking for signs of hard drug use, or alolohics etc.
I grew up in council housing with 2 working class parents, and could not have wished for a more loving and caring environment.
I agree with you.
I work with people with mental health problems, most of them are not fully capable of looking after themselves, and certainly are not 'safe' in terms of parents.
Certain patients - that are under mental health sections have the children taken off them as soon as they are born... so there goes another unwanted child, into our countries rubbish fostering system, likely to grow up with mental problems of their own, some sort of personality disorder, or delinquency, poverty.
My question is - why take the child away at birth, when the birth itself could be prevented if required.
In worse cases, some of the mentally ill parents actually bring up the child, in one particularly sad case, a 6 year old boy with no literacy and basically the behaviour of an animal (crawling, growling etc...)
We talk about human rights - i say what about the rights of these CHILDREN. Forget their parents, they have already had their chance and messed it up by drug abuse etc...
I am all for the 'parenting test' bring it on.
Rant over.
Have you totally lost it?? All families are not the same. All families are not equal. There are only legal standards that define abuse or neglect. The is no legal definition of of a "good family". And you don't ever want there to be such.
I understand the difficulty, it would be hell to implement, and mortifying for parents told NO, yet we already do this for people wanting to adopt a child, so why should the adopted child have more rights than the newborn child?
These are the things we need to stop:-
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5140511.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5573061.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Victoria_Climbi%C3%A9
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1115303/Yet-ANOTHER-baby-dies-health-workers-fail-spot-signs-abuse-mother-jailed-just-years.html
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