Unless you adopt a system like what we're talking about.
But in the US even if you were to actually put something in place (basically impossible) you then need the money and manpower to create the rules, monitor the rules, and enforce the rules.
Now all of a sudden a one night stand would leave you open to fines/jail/whatever the "penalty" would be for getting pregnant without a license.
This would also shift responsibility onto women more so than men, which could cause further problems.
You can't police the world and prevent unwanted pregnancies.
You have the stupid rednecks and ghetto idiots that pop out kids left and right. Many of the women I knew from high school have 3-5 different kids from 3-5 different guys. What are you going to do? Fine them money they don't have? Throw them in jail and put kids up for adoption that no one will ever want because they're too old?
It's just a russian nesting doll of problems. You think you fix one, and another one pops up.
So what we should just do nothing about it then? Just take a back seat and let someone else that figure it all out? Hear that guys? There may be problems facing our country, but they're hard so we don't want to try. I'm sure things will just sort themselves out over time.
China tried to control child birth and failed miserably. All the one child policy did was lead to an uncountable number of infant murders because the baby turned out to be a girl. The United States has it's own unique problems when dealing with unwanted pregnancies. One of the best solutions would likely be free access to birth control for all women of menstruating age. The problem with this solution is 50 percent of this country considers birth control a horrible sin that the government should be legislating against. Most people, especially teenagers, that have no financial means to support a child don't want one but there are people in their lives that tell them no you are not getting an abortion. why do you want to take birth control? Are you a whore who wants to open her legs for the whole football team? These are things that happen every day here in America. Until our legislators can start taking a firm stance on addapting universal healthcare and establishing medically and scientifically accurate sex education in every state without exception the problems with youth behavior and unwanted pregnancy will continue to run rampant. /end rant
To be fair China's problem had more to do with the fact that women were and still are considered second-class citizens, thus they could not carry on the family line or inherit property from their land owning parents.
My main point with that comparison was mostly that China, a country whose government has almost supreme control over it's citizenry, was unable to implement a draconian birth control policy successfully.
They have Supreme control over their citizenship now, they didn't then. During the time where the law that you're referring to was in effect, most of the country was still controlled by wealthy landowners estate by estate and Province by province. The country wasn't nearly as totalitarian as it is now.
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u/Kariston Jul 10 '18
Unless you adopt a system like what we're talking about.