Comments about ‘Protect children’

I like the idea of the license.
When my teenage daughters were taking Driver's Ed,
even THEY suggested needing classes to be a parent.

We need a license to handle food.
We need a license to drive.
We need a license to get married.
We need a license to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, CPA, Pilot, Truck/Taxi/Delivery driver,
We even need to show a license to write a check, or fly on a plane.
but

We don't even need to take 2 hour night class to be a parent?

In retrospect, personally, I'm thankful for the 9 Humanity credits I was "required" to take in college.

BTW - My wife teaches Pre-School in the Davis County School District.
I play psycologist every night as she vents about the stupid things she sees daily that parents do with their kids.

And we wonder why society is so messed up?
And who's going to keep paying for it ultimately down the road....

Some people should never be parents. Not sure what you can do about that because it's not a job any government can tackle. But I do wonder how many unfit parents would be kept from spreading their misery on unsuspecting children if you had to go through the same application process that adoptive parents must navigate.

My observation is that we don't want to invest in our people. Weapons and tax breaks for the wealthy, but not our people. The conservative way is to throw them to the dogs and let them fend for themselves. The outcome, demonstrated by a wide range of figures, show we are worse off for it, especially in comparison to the rest of the Western world.

Just because some people are evil does not mean all of them are. There always will be evil here. However the majority of people are good to there children and would not dream of doing the evil that Powell did.

This letter tries to paint too many parents in a bad light with one stroke of the brush.
SORRY some people are divorced, and the kids are draining the resources. Sorry that people have kids on accident. Sorry our lives cannot be as perfect as those who are criticizing.
Come on. Josh Powell is a evil anomaly, he is not the norm. To even bring him up in the letter made the letter too extreme to give credence.
Sure some people are bad parents. I was raised by a dad who could only provide a home and food, he was not very good at instilling self esteem or love. And I became a stable adult though many trials and tribulations... called life.
Those who want to rescue every kid, and take them out of parents homes need to re-evaluate what they are doing. They are like the old lady who wants to rescue every cat. Sounds like a good idea, then you realize it wasn't.

Why not just uphold traditional marriage and working marital problems out instead of running to the divorce courts as soon as someone doesn't get enough of their own way. Frivolous divorces hurt children most as does their abandonment in pursuit of materialistic goals.

Unfortunately having another license would not have much effect. Besides, isnât the marriage license supposed to cover all the aspects of two people living together.

The best and most logical place for parents to learn about being parents would be in church. If we could get religion to spend more time in helping, counseling and training people in life skills, and less time with morals, birth control and monuments, perhaps it would help the children and even get more people out to church.

'When will our society learn to value and care for children?' - article

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'Bristol Palin, 20, has become a celebrity in her own right, through her broken relationship with her child's father, Levi Johnston...' - article.

Another exmaple:

Octo-mom. 14 children.

No husband.

I understand the need to protect children but we fail to do so, because we put ourselves before their needs. Many new parents claim the child is 'mine', without giving any thought to what is good, for the child.

Another exmaple:

Many who post here will make the argument that a child should have a 'mother and a father'....

and then work to deny, gay adoption of a child with NO, parents.

So what the letter says, and what most of the liberals have said here today is that the government should decide who can breed and who cannot.

Remind me again who the last political party was that suggested this, and actually practiced it for a while.

Do we really want to give the government that kind of control?

'Do we really want to give the government that kind of control?' - RedShirt | 1:35 p.m. Feb. 9, 2012

But we should DENY birth control and abortion??

Redshirt, that is ALSO 'goverment control', isn't it?

You want to take control OUT of goverment hands? Put it BACK into control of the PERSON, to make that 'choice?'

I had no idea you were 'Pro-choice.' :)

To "Pagan" who is being denied access to birthcontrol? Who is being denied access to abortions?

Are you saying that comitting homicide is ok, as long as the government says it is ok?

'Are you saying that comitting homicide is ok...' - Redshirt1701 | 3:10 p.m. Feb. 9, 2012

I guess I don't know Redshirt.

DID I?

Maybe you should read my comments again, instead of PROJECTING an implication of guilt, INTO them.

How can you commit 'homicide' with birth control?

How can you kill someone, with a pill?

And how did you get your logic SO twisted, as to claim I support MURDER...

because some would rather a child have NO parents...

than gay ones?

I would really, like to know how you come to your conclusions.

Someday I hope we have the same kind of protection for children that we have for animals.