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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shake it up. Offer up one somewhat unpopular opinion that you hold.

There should be a resource/ maturity floor for having children.

Being a parent with the goal of producing a healthy, relatively happy, pro-social, functioning adult might be one of the hardest things a given person will ever do, and the only prerequisite at present is 'have functioning reproductive organs.'

We have enough people. We don't need more people. We need wiser people. More caring people.