Originally Posted by ZeeOSix
Originally Posted by billt460
I've often said if you want to establish zero population growth in this country, just require couples to pass a parental exam before they are allowed to have kids. Fewer than 10% would pass.
Watch the movie "Idiocracy" ... It's a crystal ball of the future of society.
What's funny, (or sad depending how you look at it), Is when we adopted our dog from a local animal shelter, (after we found him on the street and took him there), we were sat down and asked a slew of questions, in order to find out if we were capable of taking care of him in the proper way.
They wanted to know the size of our house. If we owned or rented. If we both worked. And if we did, would the dog be left alone. If our back yard was fenced or walled in. (They even checked our address on Google Earth to see if what we told them matched up). Which vet we would be using for his health care needs.
They would not have allowed us to adopt if we were in the service. Because they felt service people get relocated too often, and they felt that would become too disruptive for the dog. And the dog could easily end up in another shelter. (Luke Air Force Base was just 2 miles away from the shelter, and they get a lot of people from there trying to adopt dogs for their kids).
If we both worked, with no one else in the home when we were gone, we would have been denied him as well. They don't want the dog to be left alone for long periods. When we told them we were both retired, they wanted to know what other income we had besides our S.S. Even who would get the dog in the event of our deaths.
Now, you might think all of that is a bit over the top for adopting an animal. And to some extent I would agree. But the point is they were doing their best to insure the dog would enjoy a full, healthy life in good, caring, capable hands. And not end up in the same place he was when we found him. So in a way I was glad to see that.
Yes, if you adopt a child there are stringent qualifications as well. But other than a night in the sack, what "tests" do parents of children have to pass when they manufacture their own? The whole process certainly made me think. And now here we sit wondering why there are so many "parents" who are barely capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time, let alone raising a child.