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[kaijyuu]

There are a lot of concerns with such an idea, and the one I'd like to bring up is the fact that the guardian is no more likely to be good for the child than the parents are.

[SalmonGod]

I know that if anything like this were tried in the U.S., I'd be scared out of my wits.  There would definitely be an agenda pushed by lobbies to look for any reason to ensure that kids are drugged and fed in certain ways, and there's no doubt in my mind it would be used to identify political dissent.

[lorb]

There are a lot of concerns with such an idea, and the one I'd like to bring up is the fact that the guardian is no more likely to be good for the child than the parents are.

Any sensible implementation of such an idea would require that the guardian be a trained person that has some kind of formal qualification, while anyone can have a kid.

[kaijyuu]

It'd be easier and more practical to just require such certification for parents.

There's no practical benefit to having a 1:1 child to guardian ratio. If we specialize them, there'd be far more kids than guardians, so it'd be more like 1:10 or 1:100, which would have the same problems that child services have today. If we don't specialize them, then they're no better than parents are.

[misko27]

It'd be easier and more practical to just require such certification for parents.

There's no practical benefit to having a 1:1 child to guardian ratio. If we specialize them, there'd be far more kids than guardians, so it'd be more like 1:10 or 1:100, which would have the same problems that child services have today. If we don't specialize them, then they're no better than parents are.

Difficulty here is parents are made from any one who can have sex, and it stands to reason many people will pass through the holes in such a system if it was  weak(or god forbid voluntary), or be a unreasonable amount of over-reach if it wasn't. Plus accidents happen, and then what? Should we just take a child away from any non-certified parent? That sounds pretty Orwellian, and would inspire mass rage.


Seems way too likely to result in a either useless or extreme system.

[FearfulJesuit]

I do think there ought to be more things for which Child Services should be called in for, at least smarter things. Giving your baby soda pop in a baby bottle, for example...

[Loud Whispers]

I do think there ought to be more things for which Child Services should be called in for, at least smarter things. Giving your baby soda pop in a baby bottle, for example...

How despicable, not even fried soda?

[Sirus]

I do think there ought to be more things for which Child Services should be called in for, at least smarter things. Giving your baby soda pop in a baby bottle, for example...

...I fail to see the harm O_o
Then again, I'm probably not good parenting material.

[misko27]

I am inclined to disagree. Frankly, it tends to lead to fewer people actually being taken away from bad situations as making regular people's lives harder.


I may be a bit biased though...

[kaijyuu]

Seems way too likely to result in a either useless or extreme system.

Yup. That's pretty much the lesson to be learned from this topic.

[Devling]

Seems way too likely to result in a either useless or extreme system.

Yup. That's pretty much my opinion on the topic.

FTFY

[kaijyuu]

What's your opinion, then?

[Devling]

Sounds probably good on paper, will probably not be good in real life.
It would add a bunch of bureaucracy, cost money, and hurt people who don't abuse their kids then actually catch people who do.

[kaijyuu]

That doesn't seem to disagree with anything I said :X

[Devling]

Calling it a lesson seemed a little conceited. Like the conclusion was obvious or something.