Americans do too.

No, it's plenty taboo in many other cultures too.

Sorry, I can't not be angry when I read this kind of stupidity - with anti-human implications - suggested in earnest. (referring to EazyPezy's suggestion.)

...no, they don't. You sound really ignorant. And bigoted.

You immediately think of forced adoption abortion or sterilization (nobody is suggesting that)

And calling him "adorable". Calling old people adorable is super condescending IMO.

I'm reading these comments and I can't understand what "white" means in the USA. Are only blonde people or super pale people white? Nobody else makes the cut? You need to look sufficiently Aryan?

I've had this argument with thick-headed Americans who can't conceive of there being any other way to look at the world but the American way (one of their arguments was that Armenia bordered some Middle Eastern countries so it can't be white). I'd advise against going into it.

Americans seem to think it is though.

Here in Bulgaria it's a huge NO. I know a couple who are second cousins and it's universally considered super weird. I think it's because it wasn't that long that extended families lived together under one roof, and there was this very strong culture of familial links, one's family was one's identification in the…

I think that there's potential for that to be a good method of enforcing population controls without putting undue hardship on people.

Something else that I saw just now - scroll down some below your post and see what the OP was actually suggesting:

The only things that can preclude you from having kids in the first place are:

Agreed with all this, but I want to point out the word "demonstrably" here - that should mean more than just failing a parenting test. You can't take a child away because a parent failed theory. I'm all for improving child protection systems, I'm very enthusiastically in favour of prevention, free information and…

Your first paragraph describes a problem with the (existing and amenable to improvement) child protection service, not with people not having licenses to breed.

What is offensive to me was the initial proposal for a "parenting license". What you've suggested has nothing to do with that but you proposed it in the course of that conversation, as if I it's the same thing and I was being completely unreasonable in my strong opposition of something so outrageously stupid,…

I'm not at all convinced separating a child from their loving parent is good for the child. How about helping homeless parents instead? How about building a society where nobody is left to fall through the cracks until they're homeless?

So basically a better child protection system? How does that have anything to do with a "parenting license", which was the ridiculous and insulting to any average's person's intelligence suggestion EazyPezy posited?

Ok, tell me how you're going to enforce a test for parenthood. How are you going to deal with pregnant women who have failed the test. Go on, I can't wait to hear what non-horrible method you've come up with.

That's ridiculous. So if you hit a hard spot and become homeless, you don't deserve to be with your children anymore? And they don't get to see you anymore? Not to mention, there's literally no way to enforce this. How would you have it enforced exactly?