MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
No, it should remain a priviledge.
shou'd parenting be a right or a privilege?
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No, it should remain a priviledge.
Parenting shouldn't be a right. As MobBoss said, the only way you would be denied the right to parenthood is if you have almost no financial credibility or if you are a murderer/rapist whatever. Those people don't deserve to be parents anyways. So parenting is best as a privilege.
Xanikk999
History junkie
Why not a right?
It should be a right until you do something to abuse it.
Whats next mobboss? People having to take tests before they can have sex and have kids?
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
The way he is getting is that you have a right to that privalage. However, the privlage of being a parent can be taken away from you.
No, more likely if the parents who had their privlage taken away due to abuse of the child. And they want to be parents again. They would have to go through all sorts of parenting classes and legal venues to be forgiven and have their privilage reinstated.
Is it ideal to be providing someone a child if they can't afford to take care of it?
Xanikk999
History junkie
I wasnt speaking strictly of adoption. In fact i wasnt speaking of adoption.
Giving birth really doesnt mean anyones providing you with a child. If you give birth its YOUR responsibility until you lose it.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
The Government can simply look up your records. No tests needed.
If you cannot sufficantly support a child financialy, youre denied
If you have been convicted of child abuse or youre a sexual preadetor, youre denied.
It's all about background checks.
So you'd translate "the right to keep and bear arms" as requiring government to equip you with a rifle?
Then how about rephrasing the thread topic question as "the right to bear and raise children"?
Xanikk999
History junkie
Not true, free speech and right to guns does not mean people have to give you a platform for your speech, or that gun shops must supply you with guns.
So people who are infertile and who want children should be given an unfair advantage when trying to adopt? Effectively what you're saying is that these people would have a right to adopt someone's child. Personally I think that should be based on the choice of whoever deals with the adoption- whether it's social services or the parents, or both.
Being a parent cannot be a human right because not all humans are fertile. They do have the right to try and adopt though.
Are you summoning me again?
There are plenty of rights that have time, place, and manner restrictions. Just check out restrictions on 1st & 2nd Amendment rights. Financial requirements are merely a time restrictioon if you assume that the American dream of upward mobility is still in place and working. Any other item that may disqualify you from adopting is similar to the same things that could get your natural childen taken away from you or get your licnese to carry in most states revoked. So it is a right subject to timing restrictions or a right that you once had, but lost because you did something stupid.
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Xanikk, if you are adopting you pretty much do have to 'take a test'. But I dont want it to be a right, because the government doesnt have any business making such gurantees.
Did you see a pentagram? If not, then no.
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
we have the right to bear arms, not bear children.
Most Christians thoughout history believed the pentagram to by a symbol of the five senses (of which common sense is not one of them) or the five wounds of Christ. They also believed it as a symbol to protect themselves against demons and witches, not summon them. If you are trying to summon Common Sense, you may want to consider upgrading to a Hexagram.
