A caller proposes that society should implement a basic standard for parenting. They think you should possibly have to apply for a license before you could have children. But who decides what the criteria are to have kids? How would lawmakers and bureaucrats discriminate over who gets to parent and how and what they teach their children? We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com We Have Merch!!! http://shop.majorityreportradio.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder Image Credit, sheldonl https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parents_and_their_baby.jpg https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... Image has been cropped and color has been altered. Caller: Hey, long-time listener first-time caller. First, I'd like to say much like our beloved Dave Rubin I'm a high-level important ideas guy, and a lot of the recent stories. Emma: Glad you called then we need some high-level important ideas. Caller: Well the recent controversies regarding anti-vaxxers and like parents fighting mask mandates really got me to start considering the knock-on effects of parenting and inadequate parenting. So I kind of has a radical proposition that has two like prerequisites followed by a conclusion. So first it's just you know if some or if an action is likely to cause significant harm to others or society at large then we usually like to regulate and license the performance of that action. A la, driving concealed carry so forth inadequate parenting of a child is likely to in both the short and long term harm both the child and society you know like in lower achievement for the child and increase the likelihood for them to commit crimes against others. So kind of my radical idea, therefore, is that we ought to regulate and license who can parent as inadequate parenting can cause significant harm to both the individual child and society at large. Sam Seder: Okay and how would you assess this before the child comes Caller: Pardon? Sam: How would you assess it before someone has children? Caller: Well I mean I kind of like just build off what we already have which is kind of like parents can individually choose whether or not they're going to engage in say a parenting class before they have said child. So essentially I think a timing much like d ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v9n-MfK27c

We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport President of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone, joins Emma Vigeland to discuss Trump's permanent ban from Twitter and other social media companies. Plus, right wing media's reaction to big tech's crackdown on far right misinformation. This clip is from The Ring of Fire Podcast. Click to subscribe for more great content: https://fans.fm/ringoffire Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com We Have Merch!!! http://shop.majorityreportradio.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ93zeMAhUA