Parental licensing is a policy that requires parenting competence before full parental rights, but it is argued that the intimacy of parenting defies reducing it to a license. The article explores the challenges and responsibilities of parenting and suggests that no license is needed for being a parent. It also suggests that parents should hold themselves accountable and that parental licensing is a response to the inevitability of child abuse and neglect due to parental failures.
In a perfectly just world, there would be no parental licensing, as there are numerous practical, legal, and ethical reasons. However, it would be heartening if all Americans were encouraged to adopt a parenting license. Hugh LaFollette proposed parental licensing in 1980 (and 2010) as a response to the inevitability of child abuse and neglect due to parental failures. A parenting license could provide the necessary support and education to prevent unpreparedness that often leads to neglect and abuse. Legally mandated family monitoring and counseling may be preferable to parental licensing, and a test similar to that proposed by LaFollette could be employed.
Parental licensing is the idea that parenting competence should be demonstrated prior to adults achieving full parental rights. In a perfectly just world, there would be no parental licensing because the rights of parents and children would be in harmony. The state should require parents to be licensed, as there is no moral right to raise a child and it would be very invasive to prevent people from having children.
📹 License to Parent: Society’s Blind Spot
Ever stopped to ponder why we’re required to pass a test to drive a car, yet there’s no such requirement for bringing a new life into …
Is ADHD a form of autism?
Autism spectrum disorder and ADHD are related in several ways, with ADHD not being on the autism spectrum but sharing some symptoms. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) initially believed that a person couldn’t have both conditions, but the newest version (DSM-5) in 2013 allows for both diagnoses. Symptoms of autism and ADHD can overlap, such as difficulty paying attention, which can be caused by language difficulties or a lack of understanding of directions. Experts have changed their perspective on the relationship between autism and ADHD, with the newest version (DSM-5) allowing for both diagnoses.
Are autistic people allowed to have kids?
It is a common misconception that autism impairs the ability to conceive or carry a child. However, autistic individuals may encounter distinctive challenges in parenting. One of the most significant challenges is the social and emotional demands of parenting, which autistic individuals may find particularly challenging. These include social communication, empathy, and emotional regulation, which are essential skills for parenting.
Why is autism so common now?
The rising age of parents and the increasing prevalence of late marriages and conceptions may contribute to an elevated risk of autism in infants, potentially attributable to environmental factors. Treatment options for patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) include the provision of a supportive environment, the identification and treatment of underlying causes, and the implementation of strategies to address these underlying causes.
Does everyone have the right to become a parent?
All individuals possess the right to make well-informed decisions regarding childbearing, including the number, spacing, and timing of children, as well as to receive the necessary information, education, and support to make these choices.
Can two autistic parents have a normal child?
Autistic people can have children, although genetic conditions associated with autism may be passed on. Many couples with one or both partners on the autism spectrum choose to have children, and research indicates it is generally a positive experience. Parents with autism may need additional support and resources to provide appropriate care for their children, but studies show they can raise healthy, happy families. Strategies for parents include attending parenting classes or workshops, seeking guidance from family members and friends, and seeking support from others.
Which parent carries the autism gene?
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists have discovered that the genetics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be influenced by the father’s genome. Previously, scientists believed that siblings born with ASD share more of their mother’s genome than their father’s. However, recent research by Associate Professor Ivan Iossifov and Professor Michael Wigler suggests that in many cases, the father’s genome may play a larger genetic role. The study, which has been conducted across thousands of family trees, has been presented in an animated video.
Do humans have the right to reproduce?
The right to reproductive choice is a fundamental human right that allows women to decide whether or not to reproduce, including the right to choose their preferred method of family planning and contraception. However, a nongovernmental report revealed widespread pregnancy-based discrimination against women in Mexico’s export-processing sector. The report found that all women applying for work were required to undergo pregnancy testing, and employed women were forced to resign when they became pregnant.
In some factories, women were also required to show sanitary napkins to company nurses as a condition of ongoing employment. This practice penalizes women for exercising reproductive choice and compromises their ability to decide freely on the number and spacing of their children. The government of Mexico is responsible for ensuring that such employment practices cease. Family planning education, information, and services are crucial for women’s sexual and reproductive health, especially in countries where abortion is illegal.
Why can’t we self reproduce?
The evolutionary history of humans differs from that of most organisms that reproduce asexually. These organisms are single-celled and binary fission-based and are not currently classified as animals, vertebrates, mammals, or humans.
Are you born with autism or does it develop?
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects the functioning of the brain in ways that differ from the typical patterns observed in the general population. It is a congenital anomaly, manifesting in early childhood or later in life. Although autism is not a medically treatable condition, some individuals may require assistance in managing specific aspects of their condition.
Is the autism gene from the mother or father?
The study reveals that siblings with autism share about 66% of their genetic material from their father, while only 30% from their mother. Siblings without autism share only half of those percentages. However, the findings contradict the previous predictions, as the amount of genetic material shared from the father is higher than expected. The authors are unsure why fathers have such a strong genetic influence over autism, as they may carry protective mutations that fail to be passed on to offspring or pass down mutations that trigger the mother’s immune system to attack the developing embryo.
Are we designed to reproduce?
Reproduction is our biological reason for being, and our physiology has been shaped through countless millennia of evolution. Our development from an early embryo is focused on making us fit to reproduce, which is intimately connected to nutrition and energy stores. Fluctuations in food supply have probably been a key evolutionary shaper of the reproductive process, and this review hypothesizes that we have developed rapid, non-genomic adaptive mechanisms to such fluctuations to better fit offspring to their perceived nutritional environment, thus giving them a reproductive advantage.
There is abundant evidence for this notion from fetal programming studies and experimental inter-generational studies involving manipulation of parental (especially paternal) diet and examining metabolic changes in resulting offspring. It is argued that the epigenetic reprogramming of germ cells that occurs during fetal life, after fertilisation, and during gametogenesis provides opportunities for sensing of the nutritional environment so as to affect adaptive epigenetic changes to alter offspring metabolic function.
In this regard, there may be adverse effects of a modern Western diet, perhaps because it is deficient in plant-derived factors that are proven to be capable of altering the epigenome, such as folate. Therefore, parental and even grandparental diets may have consequences for the health of future generations, but how important this might be and the precise epigenetic mechanisms involved are unknown.
In today’s age, reproduction is not the force in our lives that it was historically. The Western world and increasingly in the developing world have come to consider ourselves as being in control of our reproduction rather than reproduction being in control of us. This thought processes have unfortunately permeated into biomedical research and have played a role in downgrading the importance of reproductive research and its priority for funding.
Over millennia, evolution has shaped us as we are today with one purpose in mind – to reproduce. Our DNA is immortal and will persist (through our children), whereas our bodies are simply short-lived carriers of that DNA. As a consequence, all of our development and function are geared towards the purpose of reproduction.
The aim of this review is to get the reader to think about reproduction as a long-term investment and to consider whether nature has evolved epigenetic regulatory mechanisms to enable rapid adaptation of future offspring to their perceived nutritional environment in order to gain a long-term reproductive advantage.
📹 Yaron Answers: What Would Driving Laws Be Like In A Free Society?
Yaron Brook answers a question from Ronnie, “How would a free society deal with the absence of car licenses and car age …
Right. English Common Law is the basis for our tort law. In fact, our earliest court cases were torts over water rights. However, 17th cent. British Admiralty Law is the source of all contract law & that law is still operative & controlling today within a closed system of bureaucratic capitalism. Much of this is being discussed currently & there’s a lot on the web. The least we can hope for legally is a new convention and/or nullification of existing laws, then legal subsidiarity.
Yes, in our system where the state controls all that it now controls. Dismantling the system to allow for private roads is not in the nature of any state to do. The state profits greatly from public roads & their various departments & private contracts that maintain them. Granted, now liability falls on the parents but in a private system of public roadways who’s to say? In our era of bureaucratic capitalism, the state isn’t going to give up its monopoly on anything like the law or its force.
Currently, only with the sanction of govt., are private anythings legal, i. e., contracts, right of ways, etc. The govt. won’t give up its proprietary rights over anything, especially roads. The interstates were built for the military & subsequent access by the public was the justification. Think too of all the public lands that the govt. should but will never relinquish to private ownership. Until there’s a new constitution, the desire for private roads is spinning your wheels, so to speak.
under british common law roads are unowned free public right of ways, people can purchase a long skinny piece of land, and build a road on it, and you can charge a toll if you want, it’s a driveway not a road, on a road the govt,s main obligation is to keep it unowned, that means not charging a toll a govt (city county state fed) can, if they want, spend surplus money on paving a road, or putting a statue in a park, that does not mean they must or should.
Also there is civil engagement or to civically approach people if they are acting in an irresponsible manner or the concept of dishonour when people act in an objectively desrespectful/negligent way that can be penalized. These ideas are already documented by the Common Law which is the base of the judicial system.
C A parent is responsible for their child and any legal action taken against that child until they are 18. Now they could still face juvenile detention for the car jacking and manslaughter if someone died, that is still on the kid. But any damages or medical bills would be paid for by the parent, because they are the legal guardian and it is therefor their duty to keep their child out of such a situation.
You make a great point SFG, we are confined to the thinking that roads the only means of travel. If it arose that the (argument sake) Road Barron’s existed and would deny access to everyone, then enterprising people would make vehicles that fly, or transport by other means. We may end up much more advanced society.
Hmm. Are all jurisdictions in agreement? Plus, what constitutes a jurisdiction that’s recognized by all? Would the owners of the roads be their own jurisdictions? Would the owners of the roads have interjurisdictional rights? What about proprietary & exclusionary rights? What about the owners right next door? Cars don’t pass through on your road anymore because they’d then need to continue through on your neighbor’s road that’s strung with pot holes. What then happened to your tolls?
Perhaps we will eventually see the vehicle licensing have competition much like the USPS has with Fed-Ex and UPS. Personally, I think vehicle licensing is the last Item we should worry about. There are many bigger problems in society that big government has caused. Lets get government involvement out of current business models first.
I have a certificate from the ABC Driver Certification Co. It means that I meet all the requirements of the insurance company AND all the requirements of the road company AND all the requirements of whatever other companies. The ABC Driver Certification Company also gives driving lessons and has a wonderful reputation. Their graduates have an extremely low accident rate. ABC sets the standard in the market for driver education and driving safety and value for your money.
a govt may spend money on unowned free public right of ways (streets) or on unowned public commons (parks) or pubic water ways (rivers, lakes etc) that does not mean that they must, or even that they should . the primary obligation of govt. to all unowned property is to keep them unowned (ie you can’t build a house on the highway) it does not matter what the commodity is, or how much it cost. it the govt determines the price and distribution of commodities it is socialist.
As is, most people on the road seem to have never passed a driver’s test. It seems like less than 5% of drivers in Tennessee know what a fast lane/passing lane is, & that when cruising, they should move over to the right lane, reducing traffic congestion. I,e. so that slow dumbasses who want to drive the same speed as other drivers don’t drive right beside one another, clogging up roadways. And what the hell is with people stopping at intersections with 2.5 car lengths of space in front of them?
Driver’s licenses are a means of control and taxation. Lack of one does not prove inability to perform. In today’s society, in most areas, the ability to drive is a necessity and should be considered a right not a privilege. For the most part, they are required if a person is to work, get food, and provide necessary care for children. I typically can concur with Yaron but on this one, you’re dead wrong.