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The number of people who advocate for this seriously and unironically is astounding. How would anyone implement licencing or checks in a way that isn't a basic human rights violation?
There's no way to do that, I understand the desire though…
Unfortunately the good solutions are all non-authoritarian left-wing (free high quality education, accessible therapy, walkable mixed-zones cities so kids are safe on their own by design, free health- and daycare, good strong social security, high wages and strong job security, lower working hours etc. etc.), so literally the furthest thing away from the current political climate. Either because right-wingers hate it in general or because they're so stuck in their phantasms they won't identify the correct solution if it was standing right in front of them.
It's because kids don't vote and people don't have them as much.
What we have is a majority of old people. This is something to think about when wondering why politics are so fucked.
Like any licensing, it'd be implemented, monitored and enforced imperfectly. The doesn't necessarily mean it isn't better than nothing though.
Many religions and cultures already tried it with concepts like marriage and bastardry. Personally i think they should improve on those systems and integrate them with modern technology, not abolish the concept.
What's the process for licencing? How do you obtain one? Who sets standards and testing for who is ready to be a parent? What do you do with accidental pregnancy? Or undeclared pregnancy? What would enforcement look like? And how would it save the child from suffering for the mistakes of the parent? What do you do with people who break the rules repeatedly?
You talk of history. Have you seen what happened historically in places where they tried to put children into "a better environment and punish parents"?
same as a car.