Many are the times that one comes across problematic children behaving objectionably next to their parents with their parents doing nothing to rectify such an unwanted behavior. In other instances, it is the parents of such children who promote behaviors. To anyone who comes across such children the main question one always asks himself or herself revolves around the existence of any regulations to avert such experiences. Ideally, several ameliorative strategies have been put forth with the main one being licensing of parents who want to have children. A weird as it may look, this regulation aims at ensuring that only responsible people are allowed to parent.
Besides this regulation promising to avert such experiences, one does not stop wondering how the law can be implemented effectively, considering that having sex is natural to human beings. Notably, several researchers have come out in the open asseverating that even when birth control strategies are used overly effectively, there is no way any of such strategies or a combination of all these strategies can be comparatively effective. Essentially, the proponents of this strategy of birth control are comparable to the proponents of the famous euthanasia regulation among the Nazis the allowed painless killing of people suffering from incurable diseases. In a similar manner, other strategies like forced abortion and prevention of pregnancy, either before or after the person is pregnant are also equally not able to unreservedly avert this problem.
If at all this seemingly controversial regulation is to be implemented, there will definitely be a means of punishing the offenders of this law, and just like other laws, any obtruded form of punishment to the offenders will have to be one that does not put unnecessary pressure on the finances of the state. One possible form of punishment will be confiscation of children born to unlicensed parents; a move that by all means stands to put so much pressure on the finances of the state as this move would mean that the state will have to put up several orphanages to act as homes to the confiscated children. This statement underscores the fact that there are staggeringly few people who are willing to adopt children. And even if the state manages to build such orphanages is a matter of concern that such children will be lacking proper parental care especially with in mind that the role of parents and other family members cannot be understated when it comes to a child’s overall development. Empirical research has proved that the family as a social unit is an overly fundamental unit with regard to the development of a child.
The important role that the family plays during the development of a child can be viewed from the perspective of brain development (measurable through the determination of intelligence quotient, commonly abbreviated IQ). Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute assert that children brought up in orphanages normally have lower IQ (less more than 20 points) compared to their counterparts brought up within an established family. The effects of such a regulation could also be seen other ways. For instance, the confiscated children would grow up to become people with tremendous social problems having been brought up in unnatural conditions. Again, to any mother, the biological connection that always exists between her and the child will have been disconnected and this will by all means trigger a political backlash on the part of the mother.
In the same light, having an opinionated view of a parent’s inability to bring up a child might be accurate considering that there are parents that are generally better in parenting than others. However, anyone holding such an opinion should not fail the look at the issue from a broad perspective particularly from the perspective that parenting involves the taking the responsibility of another human being with a separate life all time round the clock. The parent has to accompany the child to anywhere the child would want to go, the parent has to protect the child from chocking- the parent has to ensure (all) the child’s needs are met even without the child necessarily saying that this is what he or she lacks. This has to be the case regardless of whether the parent is perchance too exhausted to think effectively (an exhaustion that might have come as a result of the parent working extra hard in a bid to meet all the expenses tied to parenting). From a personal standpoint, I think that the parent besides having a different brain from the child’s, has to do virtually all the thinking for the child, and this is not an easy task. Additionally, there are several of the unpleasant things that are used to distinguish good parents from bad parents happen to every parent indiscriminately. It follows, therefore, that the act of reprimanding another human being for failing to think effectively for another human being is essentially not justified. Confiscating just because the parent did not obtain a license prior to getting pregnant is indubitably a move that imposes harm a child and does not really serve to save the situation. Fining or reprimanding the parent are moves that only harm the child and not actually the parent. Ideally, the regulation is unquestionably Laputan hence unsound to implement.
Works Cited
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. “Facts and Statistics.” N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May. 2013.
WebMD. “What it Costs to Have a Baby.” N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May. 2013.
