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One of the wonders in the world is when two people become parents. Parenting comes with much responsibilty. It is a learning experience, and though some skills of parenting come natural, others do not. People believe that if we require people to pass a driving test before licensing them to operate a car, we should require them to pass some kind of parenting test before allowing them to have children. As an American, I believe in the unalienable rights that were set down and stated in the Declaration of Independence, and truly think there should not be a parenting test. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". Sound familiar? The Declaration of Independence was written July 4th 1776, and in it was set down the guidelines and unalienable rights of the people in our Nation. If we possess these unalienable; meaning they are apart of man, they aren 't given out by anyone, therefore they can not be taken away by anyone no matter who they are, then why should someone be allowed to dictate who may or may not be allowed to have children? We are all equal, so what makes one person more superior than the other and allow them to control what do? " That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the Consent of the governed," We as the people give the government their power, so why should they go against what was set forth two-hundred-and-thirty-four years ago. We, the individual, live in "America the Free", not Communist China, where they dictate that families are only allowed to have one child. One person says in a blog on MaybeNow.com, "I would love it but it would be too hard to implement. After all you need a license to drive a car, carry a gun, or even go hunting. Children are so fragile and any idiot can have one. We wonder why people are


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