This is the idea that to raise a child, one (or a couple) must meet a criteria of mental and financial stability; as well as sufficient temporal availability. Once it is decided that one is eligible, they would be granted a license and legal guardianship of a preselected child would be granted. This criteria would obviously be much easier to meet as a couple, but there would also be advantages to being a single parent. As a couple, the two (or possibly many) would have to sign agreements stating that they would abide by preset rules for raising a child and that upon severe violation of these rules custody of the child would be removed from offending parties. As a single parent, raising the child may be more difficult but there is no possible conflict with a spouse that may traumatize the child.
The second half, oh yes there's more, is a birthing license. This is much simpler. More money is poured into researching genetics and the genes that cause certain diseases and disabilities. To obtain a birthing license, one's genes must be analyzed and found clear of defects, or the person may have some invaluable gene or mutation that human's as a whole would benefit from. The recipient of such a license would then be free to father or mother any children.
There would only be rare circumstances in which one would be able to give birth to and raise a child. At first anyway, eventually the gene pool would become a little less adulterated and the intelligence and financial and emotional stability of the general population would increase thus letting more and more people be able to be both the legal and biological parent of their own child. Until then, children would be born from licensed baby makers, then would be raised by licensed person makers!
I don't think this is really an "issue," I don't think it is even mentioned anywhere ever, but its an idea I have so what do y'all think?
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ES don’t let it die.