Should people have to get a license to reproduce?
This is an offshoot of another thread, but I believe that people should indeed have to get a license to have children. If you fail to get a license you should be sterilized (tubal ligation and vasectomies are reversible). Extreme? Many people who simply look at their "rights" and "personal freedoms", instead of the larger picture, always think so. Consider that there are thousands of unfit parents per city that collect money from various agencies while not contribution to society at all. These same people who are supposed to be using their 'free money' to raise their children do not 9/10 times. Those children eventually become unproductive, violent, worthless adults just like their parents.
Its funny that movies that have touched on this subject always have some kind of cold, authoritarian backdrop, but what about the very real possibility that a solution like this could stem overpopulation, keep children from being born to unfit parents, and keep children from being used as meal tickets by people who just want to collect child support or government assistance?