What did you say?

So, I continued reading The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and came across a section called "What Is Your Dangerous Idea". It's pretty much just a compilation of random, weird ideas about our society...one of these ideas caught my eye: written by David Lykken, it's the idea of creating laws requiring parental licensure, meaning a person wouldn't be able keep a new born child unless they were employed, married, and 21 years of age. what? that's right. You can't have a child unless you meet all of these requirements, which would supposedly give the child to "have a chance for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Ok. I agree with the planned parenthood politics of it all, but making it a law to let the child live a happy life reminds me of the Pro-Life argument, which, of course, I'm against. Like this abortion issue, people should be able to decide when, where, how, and who to raise a family with, according to their own beliefs. As for the crime rates, that's where planned parenthood comes in. If we could simply promote the idea of having children at an appropriate time, then maybe the rate of teenage pregnancies (for example) would go down. But to oppress a country by putting restrictions on families would create even more uproar, because there are so many families that aren't considered "normal" by this guy, Lykken. It wouldn't be good. So I guess it was right to put this idea in the "dangerous" section of the book, because its completely absurd, and if it ever happens, then I’m for sure moving to Canada.