It is important to do so because the automobile is one of the most dangerous pieces of equipment on the road, and it kills tens of thousands of people each year. If I want to cut your hair, then I have to go to school for a year and take a test. Physicians, nurses, and other professionals have to go to years of school and pass state boards. I can t think of anything more important than having children. To conceive another human being and bring them into the world without any training seems to me criminal.
Many people are sick and tired of the government imposing laws, or invading their privacy.
Yet it is offensive to me that the government hasn t taken the steps necessary to insure that all parents be certified. I am offended that American universities don t have more parenting classes like they do in Canadian colleges. In this country, we don t have a village that raises our children like back home. Grandma doesn t pass down her wisdom at the family dinner every Sunday here. No one learns how to raise a child.