Morality Games
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No way. Educational programs do almost nothing to reduce social programs like this, because the people who need it most are the people who don't care about it, take it seriously or pursue it. I love education, but that's because I want to learn things and so I pursue education and information.
The thing about child licenses is NOT that they would be ineffective, it's that they would be controversial/unethical/immoral/unconstitutional, or so many would feel.
Personally though, I think children's rights not to be raised in pathetically substandard environments should supersede people's reproductive rights. The primary challenges are to 1) defeat people's emotional objections to this idea, and 2) regulate it cost-effectively.
Some people are serious about it and trying to do something about it. Exhibit A: Sterilize for Cash: Paying Drug Addicts to Not Have Kids - TIME
We couldn't even effectively ban alcohol or drugs in this country. Trying to regulate sexual activity is like a dream within a dream. Overwhelming number of logistical challenges, all of which have terrible synergy with our culture.
For example, even if you could make society stomach it (impossible), then the very first abuse committed by the bureaucracy would send people bouncing off the walls with protests or resistance of all sorts.
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