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Bill: Parental Qualification Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Meritocratic Progressive Union
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: December 2183
Description[?]:
| What is the most important element to ensure a grand future for our nation? Our children. And we should do our very best to protect our children, even against parental mistakes. For this reason we propose that possible parents should take a test to check if they should be monitored in the future. |
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 they are allowed to keep the children, but are watched for incompentence.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:21:25, February 08, 2006 CET | From | Social Democrat League | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | Is this even practical? What about unexpected pregnancies? It doesn't seem practical to me that all parents undergo a test to see if they should have children. Not to mention the imposition on certain freedoms. |
| Date | 18:56:50, February 08, 2006 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | This is an inexcusable intrusion on the person freedoms of our citizens. A parent's abilities can not be judged by some governmental test. A parent's ability to raise and care for a child can only be shown by experience. |
| Date | 22:27:32, February 08, 2006 CET | From | Meritocratic Progressive Union | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | This is an untrue fact. There are certain things any parent should know, and not only can. The test would be taken in any case. It is not only privacy that is at stake here, but the very future of our nation. As any action taken towards our children will multyply a thousandfold as time progresses. This is too big of a responsability to leave to the parents alone. There would be no actiona taken to take away the children from the parents, they would just be watched and would be guided on the difficult parental road. We owe this to our children, their parents and our nation. |
| Date | 00:52:15, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Malivianese Militarist Party | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | We can agree to this. |
| Date | 17:09:41, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Social Democrat League | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | We should be able to trust our education system enough that they will provide our children with the necessary knowledge for all important issues in life. Many a child will also have learnt a way to raise children successfully from their parents, or if not, they can learn from their parents' mistake. We also continue to underline the practicality of the issue. |
| Date | 17:19:54, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | So we are forcing the methods in which are children are raised to conform to the government's idea of what is right and proper. We disagree with this narrow view. |
| Date | 17:54:33, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Meritocratic Progressive Union | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | Indeed, there is of course a broad perspective possible for education, one we should take. We all know that for example poverty descends from generation to generation. So do most mistakes or misfortunesof the parents in some way. It is our duty to see where we can help and to see who we can accompany along the difficult road of parenthood. It is not to enforce any narrow view upon our nations parents but to see if the simple basics of good parenting are followed. A simple test for everyone about to become a parent can alarm us about any possible future problems, and thus we can anticipate before the harm is done. This will be better for the children, the parents and society as a whole. |
| Date | 21:24:33, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Parental Qualification Bill |
| Message | Issues such as poverty are not a question of parenting rather a question of opportunity and we can not test away such issues. You would be placing a burden of a useless test and then targetting people based on economic means or other stereotypes. Parenting is an issue where government has no business stepping in to regulate with out a clear cut case of abuse. This bill does not address these issue rather it tries to regulate who can parent based on what the MPU feels is the right qualifications. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 132 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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