Should having a child require a course to complete on parenting and a psychological evaluation?
Why or why not? People need to pass a course and test to get a drivers license and need a fishing license... of course, any inbred alcoholic criminal that murdered twelve people and raped a child that served their sentence and was freed but has an IQ 0f 50 can have a kid with their high school dropout girlfriend... great society. Loves life. Loves equality. Loves children.
Absolutely not, because neither the government nor corporate course-work designers have any better knowledge of parenting or psychology than the average person, for one thing. For another, any such requirement will be infused with politics, and the Left will want to infect it with Left Wing politics and whatever the latest Left Wing claptrap will be, including how to make your kid Woke, how to make an "antiracist baby" and how to ask your child for consent before changing its diaper or wiping his or her ass when they have an accident. The right wing will try to infect the courses with religious mumbo jumbo and "traditional" values as well. None of the interest groups has any business telling me how to parent, nor do I accept their attempts to do so.
In addition, whatever "psychological evaluation" would have to be highly focused to the point that there is an objective test imposed for rooting out signficant psychological illnesses or dangerous conditions. The Left will then say that things like "bipolar" and "borderline personality" and significant neuroses and syndromes and dysphorias are not reasons to deprive people of having children, BUT they will say that displaying bigotry, religious delusion, being sexist, thinking homophobia is a sin, and being "transphobic" are definitely reasons to deny the right to have a child. And, the extreme right would obviously insist that anyone with classic mental illnesses should be barred from having a child, etc.
People need to pass a test to get a driver license, which (a) is a test to see if you can see out of your eyes, know the rules of the road and mechanically operate the vehicle, and (b) there is no evidence that any of those procedures and requirements make anyone a better or safer driver, or serve any other purpose except to keep track of who people are and where they live and which car they are driving. A test for "parenting" is far different than a test for a driver license, because we are all familiar with the mechanics of making a child, and the rules of "parenting" are not like the rules of the road or the mechanics of operating a vehicle. There is no clear "stop" "go" "yield" and which side of the road to drive on - there are myriad rules, philosophies, customs, practices and ideas which often conflict with each other, and none or hardly any of which are objectively correct.
The very idea that the government knows how to parent, such that they can develop criteria to identify and screen out people who can and cannot properly parent, is beyond ludicrous.
