Posted: Mar 03, 2010 3:12 am
Seriously? Drivers license? You don’t have to be licensed to own a car, just to drive one. Driving a car quite literally involves endangering the lives of tens or hundreds of thousands of other people on a daily basis.
I think that 3 P sounds like a great resource for those wanting it. But state approved parenting isn’t even a slippery slope. Once you have that, you have bottomed out.
Back on the subject of pets, once someone has shown they lack the skills to adequately care for the safety of a pet, then perhaps we can discuss competency tests, just like we do with kids.
While disagreeing with the car analogy I’d like to point out that according to established standards it takes about 18 years of intense training with very small class sizes (depending on number of siblings). Typically this includes some training in animal husbandry.Taking care of a dog, or a child, requires a lot more training than learning how to drive a car and the potential for damage is arguably much greater than that of a car.
I think that 3 P sounds like a great resource for those wanting it. But state approved parenting isn’t even a slippery slope. Once you have that, you have bottomed out.
Back on the subject of pets, once someone has shown they lack the skills to adequately care for the safety of a pet, then perhaps we can discuss competency tests, just like we do with kids.