Education. It is the answer to so many problems. Any numbskull knows this.

Parenting needs education like driving.

Put any teen in a car without training or a license and see what happens.

Children's education are being cut like it is an afterthought. Really? Teach sexual awareness, reproduction as soon as they can articulate the words Sexual Reproduction. Otherwise they grow up with values and education from television and popular media thinking having a baby is "pop culture" behavior and not a serious lifechanging event and for young people an insurmountable responsibility.

EDUCATION! Early as possible.

Remember that due to the hormonal and drug-laced saturation of our drinking water, and our inability to filter the metric tons of drugs going into the water recycling process, children are reaching a sexually "physical" maturity before mental and emotional maturity at alarming rates.

This is a train wreck in slow motion we have been starting to see the impact in the last 50 years already. The social and infrastructure damage is obvious now. Population, health care, disease and similar all figure into this eventually.

Religions and Governments do not have any awareness for the lack of a view over their orthodox dogma and policies sometimes hundreds if not thousands of years out of date. Don't let them dictate policy.

I don't want additional big brother licensing where education will solve the problem. Put the money from a licensing program into educating. The pay-off is much more long term smart.

Licensing just creates more criminals.

ZG

Originally posted by ZeroGhost
Education. It is the answer to so many problems. Any numbskull knows this.

Parenting needs education like driving.

Put any teen in a car without training or a license and see what happens.

Children's education are being cut like it is an afterthought. Really? Teach sexual awareness, reproduction as soon as they can articulate the words Sexual Reproduction. Otherwise they grow up with values and education from television and popular media thinking having a baby is "pop culture" behavior and not a serious life changing event and for young people an insurmountable responsibility.

EDUCATION! Early as possible.

I am a Futurist. I prefer to look forward and adjust society and in society as we evolve.

EXCEPT - this subject - raising children. Seriously! Who RAISES children anymore?

In this generation of "me - myself - I need my personal space" - - - children have "lost the village".

This is one area we need to regress back into family groups and extended families IMO.

Large extended families are a major Social education. You learn to share - you learn its not all about you - you learn to have respect for others. Older children help younger children with schoolwork and household chores. Families used to cluster together in the same neighborhood - some kids only having cousins to play with. Everyone has a part in it and a sense of belonging. Because everyone was family - no one got away with anything. Even if both parents had to work - - there was always Aunts - Uncles - Cousins - Grandparents who wouldn't let you get away with anything.

Besides all the chemicals we now put in our bodies - - IMO the worst thing that ever happened to our society is the "single family unit" of just mom - dad - kid(s).

Just a side note: My husband says the destruction of America is the elimination of the Front Porch.

As a parent, I understand your frustration when you see horrible violent acts toward children. However, you do seem a bit idealistic. Your idea(as laid out in the OP) would never be enforceable, or financially sustainable by an already glutenous, bankrupt government. And the last thing we need is more government oversight.

Face it, it's not a perfect world, and atrocities WILL happen...daily. It will be that way as long as man walks the planet.

Your heart is in the right place, but you're not accepting reality as it is. The best thing you can do to make a difference is raise your own children with love, caring, respect, and responsibility.

I think its a good idea, although when you get down to the nitty gritty details. It would be impossible to enforce. A licence to shag would be more suitable although thats defnetly not enforceable lol

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Can you say goodbye freedom? For those of us fighting the unseen war that the media refuses to cover against our ever decreasing right to raise our children under our own beliefs, this post is an insult. Do you have any idea how many bills we have fought recently trying to give control over what a parent can or can not teach our children over to the U.N. Do any of you know the real truth about CPS and the foster care system. It ain't to protect the children that's for sure.

Originally posted by calstorm
Can you say goodbye freedom? For those of us fighting the unseen war that the media refuses to cover against our ever decreasing right to raise our children under our own beliefs, this post is an insult. Do you have any idea how many bills we have fought recently trying to give control over what a parent can or can not teach our children over to the U.N. Do any of you know the real truth about CPS and the foster care system. It ain't to protect the children that's for sure.

Where is there anything in the OP's post about personal belief?

You are talking about a completely different subject.

My response is NO! Sure there are negligent parents out there...there always have been and always will be. However, giving birth/parenting has been a part of us since the dawn of mankind (obviously). Why after 10s of 1000s of years would we need a license now? That, in my opinion, leads down a path to remove selection out of the process. If the PTB forced us into licensing, what's next? Checking our DNA to make sure we will breed nothing but "superior" genetic offspring ? GATTACA anyone?

Jusyt my 2-cents