Nobody said anything about eugenics or forced sterilization, my fellow "dumbass on Livejournal." Having children is the same as any other human right unless people cloud the issue, and of course there should be restrictions, as all other rights have them.
Freedom of speech is allowed, but there's a point where it becomes slander. Right to life is a human right, but there are still places that use the death penalty. Likewise, having children is mostly a personal issue, but there's a point when someone should step in, preferably sometime before a couple has 19 kids. There's no excuse for this kind of overpopulation in a developed country, and underdeveloped countries often have reasons for having so many children (the good old days of children=extra help on the farm, I mean.)
The question, however, didn't. If you're addressing other users, maybe you should respond to them instead of jumping all over the issue itself which--regardless of your personal triggers--is one that needs to be addressed in the real world since population tends to expand exponentially.
LOL. Oh, you. I'm plenty calm, thanks, and I'll respond to this shit in whatever way I see fit. I know better than to go into personal journals and spew all over them, however. :V
I don't mean to argue, but I think that there should be laws regulating if people can have children or not. Cuz... so what you're saying is someone that is living in filth, unemployed and addicted to drugs can have a child and raise said child in that deplorable environment where it will likely grow up with severe psychological issues?
(I am not participating in this Writer's Block, nor have I read any other comments on the matter... just felt compelled to respond to yours and ask if you even draw a line, or think anyone can have children all willy nilly all over the place that they don't take care of, beat, molest, neglect etc etc...)
When such systems have been applied in the past (not proposed, actually applied, complete with forced, non-consensual sterilization) they have always turned into (if they didn't start as) an agenda to "get rid of those people," where those people = any group the people using the forced sterilization don't like.
Put it this way: let's say the "conservative" religious fundamentalist Republican whackjobs win the next presidential election, and take a majority of House and Senate seats. Would you really want them making the rules about who can have kids and who can't?
Basically, what Elynne said. If you start trying to control teh reproductive rights of say, the unemployed, what other groups next? Classism, racism, etc. wind up coming into play - the links demonstrate this, and it's happened as recently as 2000.
Children's Aid and Social Services are very, very likely to take children out of those sorts of conditions. That, too, causes psychological issues. So does the helicopter parent. The fostering system really isn't much better.
There is no easy answer, except perhaps to make various voluntary birth control methods more affordable and accessable. Forcing people to give up control over their bodies is not an answer.
Sometimes I feel like people in those situations are too stupid to take care of themselves, and even if birth control was more accessible, they wouldn't use it.
I know I'm being pessimistic, and I am not necessarily for sterilization, I just know that something really needs to be done about it. Because of genetics/population control/trauma to the child etc... just people should be more aware and make more informed decisions before having children. And education doesn't necessarily seem to help. Sterilization seems like an "easy answer" for the problems, but yes, I wouldn't want to see the law fall into the wrong hands and start being used for racist reasons...
*shrugs* I don't know. I just hate that there are so many children out there, even in a "first world" country like the US, that end up suffering from neglect due to unfit parents. :(
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Freedom of speech is allowed, but there's a point where it becomes slander. Right to life is a human right, but there are still places that use the death penalty. Likewise, having children is mostly a personal issue, but there's a point when someone should step in, preferably sometime before a couple has 19 kids. There's no excuse for this kind of overpopulation in a developed country, and underdeveloped countries often have reasons for having so many children (the good old days of children=extra help on the farm, I mean.)
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In short, calm down. :)
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Now GTFO and stay out.
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(I am not participating in this Writer's Block, nor have I read any other comments on the matter... just felt compelled to respond to yours and ask if you even draw a line, or think anyone can have children all willy nilly all over the place that they don't take care of, beat, molest, neglect etc etc...)
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When such systems have been applied in the past (not proposed, actually applied, complete with forced, non-consensual sterilization) they have always turned into (if they didn't start as) an agenda to "get rid of those people," where those people = any group the people using the forced sterilization don't like.
Put it this way: let's say the "conservative" religious fundamentalist Republican whackjobs win the next presidential election, and take a majority of House and Senate seats. Would you really want them making the rules about who can have kids and who can't?
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Children's Aid and Social Services are very, very likely to take children out of those sorts of conditions. That, too, causes psychological issues. So does the helicopter parent. The fostering system really isn't much better.
There is no easy answer, except perhaps to make various voluntary birth control methods more affordable and accessable. Forcing people to give up control over their bodies is not an answer.
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I know I'm being pessimistic, and I am not necessarily for sterilization, I just know that something really needs to be done about it. Because of genetics/population control/trauma to the child etc... just people should be more aware and make more informed decisions before having children. And education doesn't necessarily seem to help. Sterilization seems like an "easy answer" for the problems, but yes, I wouldn't want to see the law fall into the wrong hands and start being used for racist reasons...
*shrugs* I don't know. I just hate that there are so many children out there, even in a "first world" country like the US, that end up suffering from neglect due to unfit parents. :(
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