Making Things Equal for the Children, Same-Sex Couples, and More, and Protecting the Environment

It seems like every day, politicians, the media, academics, and other experts are telling us that kids aren’t getting the proper medical care, that they aren’t getting the proper nutrition, that they aren’t getting enough exercise, that too many kids in America are living in poverty, and that they aren’t getting enough self-esteem.  They call for expanding the school day and year, more after-school programs, universal preschool, and making sure kids are provided a nutritious breakfast and lunch at school.  Some parents, wary of the high costs of day care, are also pushing for full-day kindergarten and universal preschool.  Also, with the expanding school day and after school programs, it is probably a good idea to make sure the kids are having a nutritious dinner at school, too.

The experts also tell us that many kids are disadvantaged by unequal (“underfunded”) schools and households, and can’t possibly reach the very important goal of equal outcomes because of this crisis.

Thanks mainly to experts, we also know that currently:

1) Going after deadbeat dads is costing us as much or more than the child support the dads owe.

2) Children sired by a man of higher income receive more child support than children sired by a man of lower income.  This is an inequality.

3) Women who do not want children still have a right not to give birth even if they willingly engage in intercourse without contraception, though men are obligated to support a child even if they made it clear before and after intercourse that they do not want children and wore a condom.  This is an inequality in choices.

4) It is okay, even encouraged, to “safely surrender” a newborn with no strings attached (in an increasing number of states).

5) Child protective services in states and counties are often overwhelmed with children in the system.

6) The adoption process can be expensive and long, which is unfair to couples who can’t naturally conceive and carry children.

7) Anyone who wants a child has a “right” to have one, regardless of being unable to conceive naturally due to age, infertility, the lack of a partner, the lack of a partner of the opposite sex, but fertility treatments, artificial insemination, and in vitro fertilization are expensive and can be difficult.

8) It makes no difference in a child’s life if they have a father or a mother, or one parent, or two, or more, or if those parents are married or not.  A single parent of either sex is the same as having two parents of the same sex, a parent of each sex (married to each other or not), or more than two parents.

9) Having children can be expensive, placing an undue burden on the poor, who have just as much right to have children as anyone else, and we should support them with government programs.

10) Since homosexual couples should be treated equally to heterosexual couples, It is unfair for some parents to have full biological connections to their children and to be able to conceive without aid of medical professionals or a third party while homosexual couples can’t.  We can’t allow such inequality and unfairness.

11) Overpopulation is destroying the earth by paving over habitat with development and causing pollution and global warming.

12) Genetic and ethnic diversity makes everything stronger and better.

Therefore, I propose the International Child Distribution Lottery & Support Program.

Here’s how it will work.

1) Anyone who wants a child will be entered into a lottery to receive a child, regardless of marital status.  The U.N. can do “psychological” screening to qualify participants.  After all, “you need a license to drive…”

2) For population control purposes, the limit will be one child per person.  A couple can therefore receive two children, a trio can receive three children, and so forth.

3) Once a child is born, the child will be taken to be entered into the worldwide lottery to be awarded randomly to (a) parent(s), with the exception that a couple can’t receive a child for whom they are both biological “parents”.  That would be unfair and so can’t be allowed.

4) Hopeful parents must accept the child they are randomly assigned - no discriminatory requests allowed.

5) Each child will come with an equal amount of public financial child support.  I suggest taxing the rich and greedy big corporations to raise the funds.

6) All children will be required to attend government day care and then, starting at age three, full-time government school, where they will be fed three full, nutritious meals each day.  Parents will have the option of having children overnight, weekends, holidays, and vacations, and using some of their child support funding for overnight, weekend, and holiday babysitters, boarding schools, and vacation schools/camps.  The government schools will be fully responsible for making sure the child has high self-esteem yet a dependence on government, exercise, nutrition, health care, acceptable attitudes, and sex/child lottery education.

7) If there is a shortage of live births compared to demand, parent hopefuls will be required to do one or more of the following: supply gametes for conception, body cells for cloning, a womb for surrogate pregnancy, or a newborn of their own natural making for the lottery.

8) If the number of children being born exceeds demand, we can explore solutions such as more public funding to attract people to parenthood, or forced abortion, contraception, or sterilization.

That way, everything can be equal, fair, and genetically diverse, and we can protect Mother Earth.  Please don’t object with “reproductive rights” or “It’s my body” or “right to life” or anything of that sort – I'll know you are just covering for your hatred of Mother Earth and your bigotry.   After all, we’re in an environmental crisis, kids are being neglected and abused, the rich keep getting richer, and equality and diversity are so important.

Wouldn’t that make it such a wonderful, brave, new world?