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It depends on what counts for an important task, I suppose.

Voting can't have a license because it says something about that in the bill of rights. What would happen if you have a kid without a parenting license, they take away the kid?

Be careful, Goomboi . You must have steel nerves if say anything on politics, because you can and will be attacked sooner or later if you try long enough.

I think the problem stems from the qualification process that leads to those licenses. Exactly how do you define what a good parent is when there isn't really a consensus on what proper parenting is? There are major wars within that crowd centered around things like when you should stop breastfeeding your kid, when you should make them sleep in their own bed, what punishment if any should you dish out for bad behavior, and so on.

That's before getting into the current world, where amateur journalists on Youtube and Substack are beating corporate journalists with college degrees, Reddit is currently spanking professional hedge fund managers with their college degrees, and there's a lot of confusion as to what use things like degrees and credentials actually are for determining competence.

There's obviously a minimum, but the legitimacy of credentials, or at least how we go about determining them currently, is becoming increasingly under scrutiny.

When I say a parenting license I’m more imagining something where they teach “don’t get drunk, don’t hit your kids”, something like that, the (should-be-)basic stuff.

In that case, I'm not really sure. I guess that maybe there is a perception in society that morality and social things should be under the parents' jurisdiction. At least here in the US how much influence in ethics and beliefs public schooling or other state sponsored programs should have over children is a touchy subject. And adults tend to have a sort of arrogance that leads them to not want to be told how to do something that isn't mechanical like how to warm baby milk the proper way or something like that.

And thus there is probably a perception that it is a given that things like abuse should be avoided. Even though the irony is that bad parents often raise children that will become bad parents and thus won't educate them properly on how not to be bad parents.

The question, S StoicPhantom , is then this: How should the government promote certain parenting practices, when it consists of of the same constituents of the subject population?