• MeanElevator
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    1 month ago

    Seeing perfectly happy and innocent kids be themselves and seeing their drongo dead shit parents kills me inside.

    We have tests for driver’s licenses, we should have tests for people becoming parents.

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      1 month ago

      Got an aunt who works in childcare, she says the EXACT same thing.

      I’ve got mates who cause of their unresolved issues are fucking up their kids, so they decided to have another kid. Like. um… what?! how about NO guys.

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      1 month ago

      I’m wary of tests.

      Pretty sure I have family members who would ace the test because they intellectually know the right answers and can express themselves with authority because they are educated.

      But in practice they are not good parents at all because they have shit personalities.

      And then there would people who are not very literate or well educated who would stink at a test but who are great parents.

      iow, what are we testing and how are we testing?

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        Honestly I don’t know what we could test. Too many variables. I do think that some kids lose the genetic lottery and are born into shit situations. If we could prevent that, that would be great.

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        Test:
        Tester: “Do you want kids?”
        Testes: “Yes”
        Tester: “Wong answer”