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From: dag@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (David Geiser)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Solution to Population Crises
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Date: 8 Mar 91 19:45:57 GMT
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#WARNING:  $0.02 follows:

>Had a thought last night, don't quite know how you lot are going to take this
   <Obvious quip resisted.>

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>To achieve these aims why not have a system of exams for parents, the first

Sounds like you'd be selecting for the ability to pass standard
exams.  Not too bad of an idea since, now-a-days, many
educational systems teach solely to that goal.

If a good-exam-passer is what you desire to select for, your
system might work.  If, however, self-sufficiency, self-support,
and productivity are the traits that you wish to encourage, maybe
parenthood licenses should be based on something that measures
those traits more directly such as the ability to independently
(of government subsidies) support the family.  Family income
might be one measure of that.

I don't know if you were advocating licenses.  Something as
bureaucratic as licenses might not be necessary if financial
incentives and support for (otherwise) unaffordable children
were removed.  Then, it's merely a matter of personal decision
and the GD government needn't be involved at all.


dag
# Here's your $0.01 change, sir.