[MysticLlama]

I think that it all boils down to the fact that there just really is no good solution.

Personally, if I was dictator (couldn't do it as President), I'd be all over genetic research, and try to make people not able to have kids *without* taking pills or being on the shot. Make them get licenses.

Basic violation of human right? Yeah, I guess so, but it's not like the current alternative is fair either. I don't think I could afford a kid right now, it'd be possible, but tight. Yet if I had 5% of my taxes back, hmm, that makes it easier.

I even know that my way wouldn't work. Even if it was a simple process to get a "baby license" and get the shot or whatever it ends up being, the system would get corrupted, people that deserved it wouldn't get it, people who didn't would make it work through the black market, etc.

As far as society as a whole, if there was a system like this, and two people came in and wanted to have a baby, but couldn't afford it, yet both worked hard and took responsibility, I'd have no problem shelling out some money to help them. The child of loving hardworking parents isn't likely to stay in the same cycle that we see now. Oddly enough, these are the people that receive very little help.

Right now I have several friends in their late-20s to early-30s. Many are married, a couple have a child. They are professionals with good jobs, high intelligence, live good lives, etc. Half or more of them don't ever want kids, about a third want one, and the rest two to four. Take that and balance it with the people on welfare that are commonly having 4+ kids, who unfortunately enough don't break the cycle, and where does the country end up in 200 years?

Well, done with the rant for now, I usually try to stay out of this stuff, makes me sound like Hitler, and that's completely not the intention. But it definately bugs me, and I like reading converstaions and opinions about it from time to time.