All through con law class I remember this argument about the right to raise your children as you please. Its the most bogus statement in the world. First, you DON'T have the right to do as you please (just try spanking your kid in front of a social services worker) and second... you SHOULDN'T be allowed to raise kids the way you want.
Having children is not a right. Its a privilege. If it were possible, I'd vouch for parenting licenses! Perhaps we could have a system where every woman automatically gets her tubes tied and isn't allowed to get the procedure reversed until she passes some comprehensive parenting classes, background checks and psych evaluations.
The problem isn't only with women who get pregnant and have kids... and are awful mothers (yes, I should bag on fathers too but unless you are being raped, you have just as much of an opportunity to prevent pregnancy as the guy - and physically, you are the one who deals with the consequences)... the problem is also our country's foster care system. I constantly read in the news about the poor abused adopted children. Several months back I posted an article about a woman who had been keeping several adopted and biological kids in the shed. Now THIS!!! (click here) Honestly, how does this slide by government officials? I knew a woman who was trying to adopt - really wonderful lady. Boy, was she having a heck of a time. So how does this piece of trash end up mooching $180,000 off the gov't. GR!
Anyway, moral of the story - stop adding babies to this world unless you plan to take care of them. I know for so many people (esp anti-abortionists) adoption seems like a wonderful option.... and yes, some adoptive parents are wonderful. But you never know where your future baby will end up. Use a condom.
(As for the woman, I'm vindictive and believe in an eye for an eye justice - lock her up, throw some zip ties on her and feed her ramen - but only once every two days - until she dies. Sell all her properties and split the money between the kids.)
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Woah, settle down there. But yeah, who the fuck let that woman have so many kids? Where were the social workers? It can't be that easy to adopt kids when it's so hard in other countries? Didn't she have to pass a psych eval before adopting? And didn't they check in with the first few before giving her more kids? Ugh. SICK!!!
apparently everyone is too busy worrying about angelina jolie's adoptions!
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