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THW create and enforce filial responsibility laws.2017-12-22思辨精英平台THW create and enforce filial responsibility laws. Problems Existing in the Status Quo - Proposition - 1.One child policy in China makes parents put a lot of efforts upon children, but children dont pay back correspondingly, thus a lot of parents are being left over. 2.Lack of well-established nursing houses for the elderly in the society. 3.Parents have stereotypical idea towards nursing houses and a high expectation on their children, thus they are not willing to go there.- Opposition - 1.Children live in families which are randomly determined by birth lottery, some of them even live in a coercive family condition. 2.Family emotional bond is enough, there is no necessity for this policy, thus government side doesnt have to go that far by making it into a law. Possible model Make filial responsibility laws a Civil law, once children violated, they would be sued and fined, the monetary responsibility requires the money they give their parents should be proportionate to the salary or the money their parents have spent on them before; the caring responsibility requires a nationalized quota about the time children should spend with their parents. Arguments for proposition 1.Having children will cost a lot for parents, thus children should shoulder responsibility afterwards and the law enforcement is reasonable: raising children requires parents to take them as uppermost priority, then they will sacrifice a lot of opportunities, makes them less competitive and deter their self-actualization process, and also considering the huge expenditure they spend when raise their children, it is legitimate to have a law to protect parents when they are in vulnerable positions. 2.Having children makes the gender role problem in the society even more severe thus children should compensate for that: having children means females have to suffer more discrimination out of maternal leave, and males must shoulder more responsibility, expectation and pressure from society. 3.This policy will promote positive discourse in public, let children reconsider their role and realize the ignorance they have towards parents, influence the children who arent willing to take care of their parents in previous time, spend more time with their parents. Positive discourse will set a friendly environment, and increase the possibility for organic change to happen. Argument for opposition 1.Rebuttal: The problems identified by proposition side are not caused by childrens behavior but the social narrative, which government should control by guiding policies but rather having children to bear the burden. 2.Children live in families which are randomly determined by birth lottery, they dont have to pay for these arbitrary coincidences, and some of them even live in a coercive family condition, thus children should at least have a chance to make an independent decision about whether to break up from that particular family which traps them. 3.Coercing unwilling kids will make the family situation even worse: once their time and money is deprived, children might blame all that for their parents, which will weaken the already delicate family bond. 4.This policy will be an excuse for government to dodge and avoid social responsibility: once governments responsibility to provide better social welfare towards elderly has elsewhere to transfer, they will have less incentive to develop the infrastructure which they ought to have. 5.Invoke a negative social narrative that having children is a financial investment: the mentality of raising kids changed from emotional bond to financial investment, parents might treat their kids like a tool or lottery only to guarantee their life, they want to have more babies to increase the possibility to have more successful kids who can support them afterwards, or they would push very hard, and spend a lot of capital on children, thus more tiger parenting cases will happen.THBTwe should grant parenting licenses to biological parents based on the same criteria used for adoptive parents.| Before started |Key word approachParenting licenses, biological parents,same criteria, adoptive parents Pay attention to the substantial meaning:THBT, we should This is not about the policy but more about theprinciple, meaning why we need this parenting licenses and why this maybe justified Always ask yourself why and howHow biological parents are different from adoptive parents?Why is that important?What are the criteria that used for adoptive parents right now?| Setting the model |bysolving these questionsWhat are the criteria that used for adoptive parents right now?1)Psychological health of the parents: if the parents have anxiety or anger management issues, which might be the reason to disqualify them.2)Physical health: if parents have terminal illness and they are very likely to die in the near future, which could also be the reason enough to disqualify parents to adopt a child.3)Financial liability: parents are unable to provide the children with sufficient food thats necessary for the childs development.4)Environmental problem: living in a neighborhood that is full of violence.5)Parents knowledge and readiness to become a parent: understand the stages of the childs development and how to deal with different issues.| Problem |When you become the biological parent, you neither have to prove anything nor have a qualification other that biological capacity.| Argumentation | Prop Pay attention to the different characteristic of different types of parents.ProblemMany children are born into the families that are not ready to raise the child. Thats extremely unfair to the children because they lack the opportunity and resources to develop into a stage where they can self-actualize.1. Childrens right toself-actualizationStatus-quo:children are subject to unfair conditions. There are children who are extremely privileged and happy family. Parents have the resources and children are being taken care of their loving parents.However other situation is existed as well, the abusive families. This family has a rather bad environment for kids to live in. This kind of deprivation at the early stage of life is extremely important. It doesnt affect not only your childhood but also the quality of life after your childhood. So compared to the happy family children, the children in an abusive family dont have theresourcesto be good and they cant form other meaningful relationships with people. The children probably be traumatized by the experiences.Even if the child could be someone who is highly educated and perfectly happy, they have to overcome a lot of barricades in order to meet the level of happiness and development.Although it is not possible to totally equalize the degree of all the different family, we can avoid the worst case scenario by give them at least the minimum circumstances to help them to develop. And, the matrix used for the adopted parents is highly suitable to apply. Reasons are as follow:1)The criteria are being decided by expert, which makes it so objective. Children have to develop according to the social context. Experts usually get good knowledge of the developing necessity of the children.2)Experts and social workers have the experiences. Although we cannot guarantee that every parent to be perfect, we have a very good indicator in knowing who could be reasonably good parent.So going further, we need to do comparison betweenchildrens right to self-actualization vs parents will and parental rights. So why do we have to prioritize the childrens? For reasons below:1.The children arevulnerable. They have no agency to protect themselves from the potential harms that coming from parents. If you are born in a abusive family, then you are probably subjective to the violence for many years and you have no way to fight against your family.2. Level of violation is different. If they children are violated into different degree, the impact will last for a long time or even the rest of their life. Talk about the case of negligence. You, as a child, was neglected and lack of parental supervision. The sense of loneliness and your necessity for attachment will be something that is going to impact you, your life and your relationship.3.For children, the impact of the harm isirreversible. Parents probably can improve the condition and work on the issue to be a good parents, but childrens harm is hard to change.The childrens rights of self-actualization is limited in the status-quo. By implementing this policy, we will highly improve the condition.2. Parents will also be benefited from itThe status quo is many parents might have children simple because of the social norms or it just happens that they have a child. But they arenot necessarily equipped with the knowledge of the entire process of child-baring and how to raise a child, so they are not well prepared. This will also harm the partners. Parents are distressed and they sacrifice a lot of resources to raise the children without necessarily driving happiness from it.Out policy makes this paradigm different.Previously, when you reckoning upon having a child, you probably have some fantasy like you and your child go to the zoo together or have talent show which are all happy experiences. But they dont have a concrete figure for them to fully understand what it means to be a parent.Now when we implement these criteria, these are extremely concrete, formal structure of qualification which are more likely to make them good parents. With our supervision, we can guarantee that the changes are not momentary but a sustainable process. This also prevents parents with the mindlessness of having child but then regrets it as well as educates parents who wish to learn and improve themselves so that they can become good parents.The result is only the parents who truly want children who are responsible and capable will have children. In addition, the individual in need will get help. Many people who are psychological challenged or suffer from domestic violence or who need welfare state are not likely to go out and seek the help they need. The reason that they cannot get help is sometimes they dont know they need help or they dont know they are qualified for help or they dont have courage or they dont feel safe to seek for help openly. When they go through the process of becoming parents, they will have direct communication with social workers who can educate them about the resources that exist for them, offer them help and make them accessible. Even if parents fail to become parents in the short term, they will be able to improve in the long term. In conclusion, we will change the parents incentives and their welfares.3.The social impactThe society is going to be happier. This will also reduce the domestic crimes by preventing the domestic violence and teaching people how seek help. The supervision in place will not only deter the violence but also deal with the violence in early stage so that to protect the social security. Those people who need help will directly ask for help from social worker who are now extremely available. Individual could be better equipped to be happy and become fully functioning individual.| Opposition |1.Violation of parental rights is extremely significant and substantial that cannot be tolerant.1)Wanting family and wanting to rise the next generation is the natural instinct.It is the maternal instinct to protect the baby from dangerous scenario before they protect themselves. Its almost instinctive for parents to save the child when a car rushes into them even at the expense of the parents life. This kind of behavior is a signal and preview into the deeper instinct that humans have. The parents see their children as the imperative necessity; its not a conditional thing. Thus, people deserve the right to have children.Yes, they are abusive parents, but their abusive behavior isnt coming from the fact that they dont need their child. But its rather coming from the other problems that manifest itself in the relationship with the children. It is just like theanorexia, when people have anorexia, they dont want to eat or drink. Its not because they are biologically dont need food. They obviously need food but they dont eat food because of other psychological issues that makes them hate the good. The abusive parents are similar case. The abusive parents probably have some special experiences or they are psychologically influenced to raise their children, but its not because they dont need their children. The solution for them is to give them therapy and medical help so that they can stop abusing. The policy is not a solution to it.2)Physical contribution of the parents is basic and very close to the human nature. For ten months, the mother will physically embody the child as the self-sacrifice. The mother is limiting and compromising her own health for the sake of the health of the baby. They cant drink alcohol, they cannot smoke cigarette and they cannot exercise intensively. Those biological sacrifices that the mother makes for the sake of the baby is a reason enough to say that the mother has some sort ofstakein the child that adoptive parents dont have. The child could not have possibly existed without the biological sacrifice of the parents.3)Having a child and raising them is very fundamental to theiridentityandself-actualization. We have the culture in Asia that you need to continue the bloodline. That cultural value is deeply embodied in many of the individual. That could even become somebodys mission and peoples judgement about whether he or she fulfill the life. Another example is that many couple say we would love to have have child who is the result of our love. So its also the fulfillment of couples relationship, which is fundamental to the marriage.4)10-month biology pregnancy is also anemotionally testing process. When you give birth to the child after ten-month pregnancy, its not only a child but also part of your identity. You, as the mother, experience every single moment before the child was a life until it came out as a fully independent human being. Others cannot simply take the child away because some reasons like you live in a bad neighborhood or youre depressed.The better alternative is to give help to parents and take away the child only if its absolutely necessary and danger is eminent to the child when the child is old enough to decide whether the parents are not good for the child. Thats something happening in US. At the age of 15, when the American child can claim independence from their parents and they are no longer bond by the legal decision made by the parents.2. To extend the first argument, and talk about why the fundamental violation of parental right is discriminating particular social economic groups.1)Problems like environmental hazard, fi