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Bill: Saving the Children
Details
Submitted by[?]: Saiserist League
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2495
Description[?]:
| "We all spend plenty of time discussing threats to our nation's most precious resource, our children. Yet so frequently we tend to miss the most dangerous threat of all to children, namely their parents themselves. We are not proposing to abolish the basic family unit, even we are not that revolutionary, merely protect the as-yet unborn innocent children from suffering if the parents are incapable. We already save children from their parents if there is a pattern of abuse, so why don't we attempt to intervene before a child is made to suffer through that and endure a traumatized life? You require a license to drive, own a gun, or sell liquour, yet there is no test of competence to bring a human being into the world and raise it to adulthood. Well, there bloody well should be. Make the right decision, and thank you for your time". -Daniel Vladimirovich Feterokov, in the proposition speech to the National Directory |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning parental qualifications.
Old value:: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Current: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Proposed: The government requires a test for would-be parents, if parents circumvent the test the government takes custody.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:13:48, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Saving the Children |
| Message | "This is outrageous. You propose to regulate the sacred right to give birth to your own child. Not only would this be virtually impossible to enforce, but it's completely tyrannical on principle!" ~Wade Kravant, Minister of Health and Social Services |
| Date | 11:12:06, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Saving the Children |
| Message | "Tyrannical, hardly. We are not regulating whom can marry who or raising all children in creches. At least the Revolutionary Socialist Party cares about the well-being of unborn children. Permitting child abuse, and permitting an innocent child to be raised by inept parents, that is outrageous." -Ulysses Dunikov, Official Spokesman for the Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| Date | 15:00:58, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Konservativa Respublikano Parti | To | Debating the Saving the Children |
| Message | How can government make the decision as to whether a couple are "worthy" of having a child? And just how the hell would this be done? All children must be placed with an adoption agency, and only those "worthy" of having a child will get one? It's a noble idea, but it's not possible. |
| Date | 16:24:32, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Saving the Children |
| Message | No, the idea is that after a pregnancy is confirmed the parents are required to take a simple test to confirm that they are capable of raising a child in a healthy, happy home. That doesn't seem like much to ask of parents. If they go around the test and have the child anyway, the government will take them away and place them in foster care until the parents can demonstrate satisfactorily that they are prepared to be parents. This is the one effective way of nipping abuse in the bud, and preventing it before it happens and innocent children become scarred for life. We are not advocating creches, and not establishing the idea of taking all children away from their parents, and its very possible. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 401 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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