Criteria for Parenthood

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Criteria for Parenthood

Michael and Catherine “Kitty” Burke were told they weren’t qualified to be foster parents unless they vowed to support a child should he or she someday identify as “LGBTQIA.” Reminiscent of California's attempt to disqualify parents because they did not support their child's transitioning at school.

So, the state has requirements for parenthood.

This is actually fascinating because there has been an often-spoken-of problem with a rarely-spoken solution. Crime and poverty have established connections to childbearing and childraising. Single-parent families, families with incarcerated parents, and children of teenage parents all, demographically, raise children who do not work, commit more crimes, require state financial support, go to jail, and have children who do the same.

Will the state, having already announced they have the right to define parenthood criteria, turn their hungry eye to that area? And what would their good-intentioned actions be?