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A license to have children [W:81]

A license to have children?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 20.6%
  • No

    Votes: 79 73.8%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Total voters
    107
I know it isn't strictly enforced but a marriage license is a license to have sex. If you breed outside of those parameters you are breaking the law. Think about it. A driver's license is a license to drive. A hunting license is a license to hunt. A marriage license must make legal some sort of behavior. Is it outrageous to assume that sex is illegal without a license?

Yes. Very much so.
 
I know it isn't strictly enforced but a marriage license is a license to have sex. If you breed outside of those parameters you are breaking the law. Think about it. A driver's license is a license to drive. A hunting license is a license to hunt. A marriage license must make legal some sort of behavior. Is it outrageous to assume that sex is illegal without a license?

Or, you know, it's a license to marry. That's why it's called a marriage license and not a sex license. Kinda handy how they named it that. It just tells you what it's for right in the name.
 
That's why it's called a marriage license and not a sex license.

Sex is implied.

Even if we were to make such a law today, in the age of Eminem, Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha, we wouldn't use the word sex on a legal document. A marriage license is a license to have sex. Here's another news flash for everybody. A marriage license isn't a legal binding document until the marriage is consummated.

Don't get all pissy with me. These laws aren't enforced. I do understand why many people are unaware of the purpose of a marriage license. The intention has always been to grant permission to individuals to engage in sex. This was the case even when marriages were still granted by churches instead of the state.

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2271952 said:
The first marriage license was issued in Shawnee, Kansas to John D. Skidmore and Arabella Z. Rice. Their marriage was performed on February 24, 1856 and the first marriage license was recorded on April 18, 1856.
 
I know it isn't strictly enforced but a marriage license is a license to have sex. If you breed outside of those parameters you are breaking the law. Think about it. A driver's license is a license to drive. A hunting license is a license to hunt. A marriage license must make legal some sort of behavior. Is it outrageous to assume that sex is illegal without a license?

Am marriage license is not a license to have sex. It's a license to have the state recognize to people as one body when it comes to legal and finical affairs.
 
Should people be required to qualify and obtain a license to have children? If so, what should be the standards to qualify and why?

People need a license to drive, hunt, fish, etc and society is inundated with government regulations as it is, and yet people can breed freely without regard for their ability to provide for their children and regardless of genetic health. Personally, I think it would be disastrous to give the government control over reproduction, especially considering the lousy job it does with everything else. And yet, it is illogical for unhealthy and/or poverty stricken people to breed.

I voted no. Generally in our history as a species Eugenics does not bring any good.
 
Sex is implied.

Even if we were to make such a law today, in the age of Eminem, Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha, we wouldn't use the word sex on a legal document. A marriage license is a license to have sex. Here's another news flash for everybody. A marriage license isn't a legal binding document until the marriage is consummated.

Don't get all pissy with me. These laws aren't enforced. I do understand why many people are unaware of the purpose of a marriage license. The intention has always been to grant permission to individuals to engage in sex. This was the case even when marriages were still granted by churches instead of the state.

Please show me any statute, federal or state, that prohibits anyone from sex based on whether or not they are married.
 
Please show me any statute, federal or state, that prohibits anyone from sex based on whether or not they are married.

Here is a few states that issue marriage license.

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas
California Colorado Connecticut Delaware
Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas
Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland
Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada
New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York
North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma
Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina
South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah
Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia
Wisconsin Wyoming

Here is a list of the states that do not enforce the law:

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas
California Colorado Connecticut Delaware
Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas
Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland
Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada
New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York
North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma
Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina
South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah
Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia
Wisconsin Wyoming
 
My heart says yes... though not everybody that is smart or well off is a good parent either. I think MANDATORY parenting classes with a passing grade should be a prerequisite and those that don't pass and have kids should face a consequence like community service and more parenting classes. When we got divorced we were forced into a parenting class though we are really good parents. I could not believe how ignorant most were in the class about the most basic of parenting. It was really alarming, to be honest.
 
Here is a few states that issue marriage license.
Here is a list of the states that do not enforce the law:

That's not what I asked. I asked you to show me a statue from any state or from federal law that links marriage licenses with sexual activity. You claim that they are linked. I'm asking you to show me the law that says this.
 
That's not what I asked. I asked you to show me a statue from any state or from federal law that links marriage licenses with sexual activity. You claim that they are linked. I'm asking you to show me the law that says this.

Would it change your mind? or would I be wasting my efforts?
 
Would it change your mind? or would I be wasting my efforts?

Change my mind about such a law existing? There's no mind changing to do. Either there is such a law or there isn't. I say there isn't. If you can show me one, that would make any opinion I have on the subject irrelevant, since there would be actual facts.
 
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