birthing licence.

whilst sitting on the public transit today i saw what reinforced my opinion of why having a child/baby should require a birthing licence.
just like driving cars, having a baby should require a licence...

.. a very young lady - approx 20-22 ish was acting exceptionally rude to her very young daughter, who was asking the same question over and over.
sure i understand that repetition is annoying... and downright frustrating, but absolutely at no point in time should a mother grab her daughter and yell "will you GIVE it up! I said NO!" infront of an entire bus.
needless to say the child was embarassed and began to cry, wherein the young mother smacked the child on the face and told her to shut her mouth.

now i am aware that we don't know the family situation and maybe the young mother was at a point in her life where the anxieties, joblessness, etc, of life brought her to a point of snapping... but acting in such way towards a young child is inappropriate and can cause emotional scarring.

this is just one of many situations wherein i've seen young parents, or heard stories, or cared for children who come from abusive homes or poor homes: homes that are unable to care for a childs basic needs.
this is not right.

and so i use my example of a drivers licence.

if it is required by law, and by social acceptance, to be qualified to drive and man a vehicle for safety of innocent people, so should it be required that parents be qualified to be such.

these are lives that we are protecting. the lives of the children that cannot choose for themselves, and cannot look at a situation and decipher what is right or wrong.

if a parental unit cannot support a child they should not have it. bottom line.
not just financially support, but emotionally and psychologically.

parents are the vehicles in which children drive through life. if parents are not qualified and skilled in this process it can result in an accident, maybe minimal but quite possibly tragic.

i wouldn't want to take that chance.

i'm waiting until i know i can support a child financially, emotional and psycologically before i step behind the wheel of the parental vehicle.

you do the same.
be safe. be wise. and be smart.