Well, if someone does something against the law (such as neglecting children), they can lose certain rights (such as freedom ... hence jails). I would feel differently if they judge was saying that she could NEVER have children. The judge is saying that she has made mistakes in her care of her kids. Until she rectifies those mistakes she temporarily faces a loss of freedom if she ignores the court order.
I am all for reproductive freedom. I feel very strongly that many options of birthcontrol should be available. I wonder if condoms should count as OTC purchases for FSA. Heck, I feel that sterilization should be completely covered by insurance (since the procedure will SAVE the company money from covering pre-natal stuff). Personally, I think that a judge who believes that people should take responsiblity for their children is MUCH more likely to limit procreation than forcing procreation.
I worry a LOT more about some of the more fundamentalist people deciding that birth control (aside from prayer and/or abstinence) is a sin and therefore should be illegal.
I also feel that people who blow off their responsibilties should lose the 'right' to be repeat offenders. If you drink and drive enough, you will lose your license. If you break a law (and given that social services intervenes, I suspect that there is a law somewhere about 'reasonable' care of children), you pay the consequences.
However, I am considered a bit 'out there' in some regards with regard to children. I happen to see the logic of the person who said that no one who hasn't yet raised a chicken, cat, dog, or horse from infancy to good citizen adulthood should have a child. If you can't create reasonable boundaries for that cute puppy, kitten, foal, chick; how in the world will you do that for a significantly more complex (and more time needy) child? If you want to adopt a child, you have to have been married for a certain length of time, both of you are interviewed, you have to have the $ to care for the child at a minimal level, you have to WANT the child, and you have to be of an age to be likely to be around for the child as it grows up. All of that is reasonable to my mind, however, if anyone mentions that this may be a good idea before procreating the old-fashioned way and it becomes unreasonable.w
Re: toughie
I am all for reproductive freedom. I feel very strongly that many options of birthcontrol should be available. I wonder if condoms should count as OTC purchases for FSA. Heck, I feel that sterilization should be completely covered by insurance (since the procedure will SAVE the company money from covering pre-natal stuff). Personally, I think that a judge who believes that people should take responsiblity for their children is MUCH more likely to limit procreation than forcing procreation.
I worry a LOT more about some of the more fundamentalist people deciding that birth control (aside from prayer and/or abstinence) is a sin and therefore should be illegal.
I also feel that people who blow off their responsibilties should lose the 'right' to be repeat offenders. If you drink and drive enough, you will lose your license. If you break a law (and given that social services intervenes, I suspect that there is a law somewhere about 'reasonable' care of children), you pay the consequences.
However, I am considered a bit 'out there' in some regards with regard to children. I happen to see the logic of the person who said that no one who hasn't yet raised a chicken, cat, dog, or horse from infancy to good citizen adulthood should have a child. If you can't create reasonable boundaries for that cute puppy, kitten, foal, chick; how in the world will you do that for a significantly more complex (and more time needy) child? If you want to adopt a child, you have to have been married for a certain length of time, both of you are interviewed, you have to have the $ to care for the child at a minimal level, you have to WANT the child, and you have to be of an age to be likely to be around for the child as it grows up. All of that is reasonable to my mind, however, if anyone mentions that this may be a good idea before procreating the old-fashioned way and it becomes unreasonable.w