Hello! I had nothing to really write a blog concerning in the past few weeks really, the attempted mugging I experienced wasn't blog worthy, going out partying all the time isn't blog worthy and nor is work or anything else in my general day to day life, but I think I've found something which may pique some peoples interest or at least lead to people having a view on something a bit different!

So on my lunch break today at work I decided to go to Iceland for a microwave meal, I realised I've been eating far too expensively during my dinner breaks and it needs to stop if I want to be able to eat all month. Whilst in there, happily looking through the range of meals, which included a Chicken Tikka Lasagne which I decided would be the meal of choice today, and my lord what a great choice that was, I found myself angered and offended by a woman and more specifically the way in which she treated her 6 - 8 year old son.

The son was carrying the basket of shopping that had so far been selected, he didn't look to be overly enjoying himself, who would? but he didn't seem to be in a particular bad mood, he certainly had done nothing to grab my attention and so I can only assume he didn't deserve (nor in my opinion could he have done anything at that time which would change that) to be spoken to the way he was by his mother.

From what i had heard the mother said: 'Stop it now, or I'll give you away and you'll never see me again' oh as bad as i believe that to be, perhaps the worst bit follows: 'and I'll be happy about that!' Right Ok, way to make the child not simply feel like he's done something wrong but that you'd be happy never seeing him again... later on after she said some other nasty things i couldn't quite make out they once again came closer to where i was now looking at chicken breast steaks, 2 of which i have not long finished eating and again, the boy slowly walking behind her not making any noise and such. She turned to him and shouted in his face: 'you're showing me up!' I was at this point completely outraged at the way in which the mother had been handling her son and not being one to sit quietly in such social situations decided putting my 2 cents in was a good idea. I simply said 'The only one showing you up love, is yourself - the things you're saying are disgusting' before turning away and walking off before she had chance to respond. It's not the first time i've felt like or have indeed said something when a mother has treated their child in such away but it has me thinking, should people like this be allowed to have children? Obviously in my mind, the answer is no.

I believe with over population, a culture of 'lets have babies and live off wellfare' and plenty of bad mothers who couldn't give a shit it is time something is done... but what?

My suggestion would come in the form of a license to have children... To adopt you must be assessed, to foster you need to be assessed and still, some of these people turn out to not be good enough, why then should people be allowed to have their own children so freely? It's absolutely ridiculous and in my mind cannot be defended.

I would suggest that people applying to get this license be put through a financial check and some form of training followed by mental health checks and suitability to parenting assessment. At the end of such checks they would be issued or not issued a license which would allow them to have a fixed number of children below the age of 18. Anyone not meeting the criteria of parenthood or exceeding their allowed number of children under 18 would be forced to have a state enforced abortion, without any kind of choice in the matter. Should a person be too far pregnant for said abortion, the child would be taken into care immediately upon birth, unless an assessment were carried out during pregnancy and they were deemed fit to parent the child. If someone were to be found to purposely hide their pregnancy to have the child unlawfully, they would have the child taken with no chance of regaining them and face either a fine or prison sentence. Changes in marital status, financial status etc would result in any license being voided and a new one having to be applied for.

It's quite simple the reasons i think this to be a good idea, far too many bad parents and in some cases bad people are parenting children and it should not be allowed. It may seemingly infringe on human rights, but what about the rights of a child to be cared for properly?

If only i were a dictator in this country, democracy is shit.