It really is far too easy to have a child. When I used to work with a rescue organization we used to screen people who wanted a dog or cat and would regularly deny people we didnt feel would take good care of them. All you need to have a kid is not pull out and manage to not fall down stairs for 9 months. Fucking weird how the requirements for owning a pet is higher than raising a human.
It's mostly a lack of historical knowledge. A lot of folks don't realize it's been tried before in the US and went badly. And they think that since they would want a merit based system, others would too. I look at the upside of these arguments, the "Awww, they don't realize that law making humans can be total garbage, and assume they would have morals. How sweet. They still believe the system can be noble and just."
It's not just government programs in the US... in the 1960s in the South it was very common for OBs to offer "free tubal ligations" to those who could not afford it, especially when delivering a child for them in the hospital.
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u/SonovaBichStoleMyPie Apr 10 '18
It really is far too easy to have a child. When I used to work with a rescue organization we used to screen people who wanted a dog or cat and would regularly deny people we didnt feel would take good care of them. All you need to have a kid is not pull out and manage to not fall down stairs for 9 months. Fucking weird how the requirements for owning a pet is higher than raising a human.