Test for a parent

We have had really nice discussion yesterday. It was about how to protect the children from being not taken enough care.

Today if you want to drive a car you need a driving license. If you want to get a job you need a Masters degree. But if you want to become a parent you need nothing, just make the baby wait until it is born, and then what?

This question "Then what?" occurs every day in front of every parent from time to time. One gets fired , one gets moved to work in another city, one gets sick, and "Then what?". This is a question that some of us ask them self, what to do with my child, how to explain to him/her that he/she must leave all his friends, or that we can't have the usual vacation or ...

Kids need to have training and to be prepared to be a parent. Now in schools there are some sort of lessons about that, but they are in the last grades, at the time when some of their classmates already have babies.

I think that this parent lessons must start when the children are about 10 years old, and they have to be graded, and they have to take tests on the matter, and this must be mandatory for everybody, like a math, but math starts from first grade and sometimes is over in 8 grade. This lessons should start in the 5 grade and last until the end of the school.

And there is even more. On basis how well one did on that parenting tests, they are supervised when they have a baby. "WOW privacy, right to have a baby". There is no such right like on to have a baby. This is not stated anywhere. Some people take this just lets bring another member to this society, but they don't take or realize the responsibility that takes to grow this new member is a good person, to protect him, to take care of him.

So if someone fails the parenting test, they still may have a baby but the society must supervise them.
Someone doesn't want to take the test well then, lets install cameras and microphones in theirs homes, limit their movement with some type of parole and put them on probation and in 1-2-3 years take parts of their limited freedom, and at the end lets say after 3 years grant them the right "Be a parent".
For the people that have successfully taken the test just grant them that right after the test.

In this way we can prevent some of the child suffering at least in the developed countries.