For years I have watched kids on average just get worse and worse and worse. And for the most part I don't think it is the world as a whole is to blame I believe it is the individual parents. The past generation who had bad parenting are now having kids and because they had bad parents they them selves are most likely bad if not worse parents than they had. And the process will just get worse and worse. My step mother has a kid in her class who's mother thought it was the schools and the schools job ONLY to teach her kid to do something as simple as write their own name. Who at 6 years old still talks like he is just starting to learn how to talk. At 6 you should be speaking in simple but complete sentences already. People like this aren't even the worst. And it is people like this I don't think should be allowed to have kids. Fact is I believe 100% you should have to prove you can be a good responsible parent.
I believe 100% that you should need to get a license to have a kid to get it you will need to do a number of things. First of all you would need to an intelligence test. Say on a score from 1 - 10 if you scored 1-5 you will be put pertinently on a list that would make it so you could NEVER have a kids because people that stupid should never ever have a kid. People who scored say from 6-7 would get denied but allowed to take the test again in one year. And if you score 8-10 you would be approved to go to kids school so to speak that would be a 2 year program that you need to pay for. Because if you can't pay for it then you can't afford a kids and shouldn't yet have one till you can. And in this school they would teach you all you need to know about being a parent. And more importantly how to raise a kid from being born till their 18. The school would teach you all the thing you might not think of when raising a kid such as finances programs you can use if you loose your job and need help before getting a new one. And you must pass the school with at least a grade equal to a B or you wouldn't get your license to have a kid. If you scored a D you would need to skip one year before being allowed to take the intelligence test again then if passed allowed back into school. However if you scored an F would would be put on the same list of never being allowed to have a kids. Because if you can't pass the school with even a D even if you aren't stupid enough to fail the intelligence test you aren't responsible enough to have a kid.
For those who are placed on the list to never have kids if someone feels hey were placed on the list unfairly they can object to the placement once every 5 years. After paying a rather substantial fee they would be allowed to take the intelligence again.
Those who are caught having kids without the licence would not only have their kid taken from them but both parents would be placed into jail for a set amount of time and both the man and women spayed and neutered ;).
I believe all of this with every fiber of my being. I am sick of seeing all these spoiled little brats while i have been working retail. Hearing stories of kids and their parents from my step mother. I just keep on seeing things get worse and worse. And makes my faith in humanity slip more and more. I don't think things are hopeless by any means yet but we are heading that way and i believe we are heading there fast.