I've been thinking about my comments on this topic. Sometimes I get so angry that I speak from the heart before taking time to think things through. I would like to add a few things so you all can understand where I'm coming from.
First, I think we all agree that raising a child is the single most important job there is. What qualifications are required to have a child? One only needs the ability to reproduce and he/she can become a parent. Fertile eggs and live sperm is all that is needed.
We are required to pass a test to obtain a driver's license. We must go to school and pass state boards to practice law, medicine, social work, etc. Think of all the jobs that require education and certification, registration, etc. Would you let a 13 year old loose on the street driving a car? Would you go to a doctor who didn't go to medical school or have a medical license. We don't even let people vote until they are 18. You get the point.
I just don't understand how society can sit back and watch as children are being abused, neglected, raped, killed, etc. over and over again. Yet we allow people that are proven failures at parenting to continue having more children. I am personally sick of trying to put back together lives that are shattered because a "parent" failed miserably. Most of us come to WS and read these horrible stories and are truly disturbed. But how many of us actually see first hand what happens before, during, and after the story? Wouldn't it be nice if these tragedies had never happened in the first place?
