Should married couples put up financial collateral before they have children?

To ensure that couples know what they are getting into. To ensure the children are maintained during their marriage or after divorce, and help avoid delinquent parenting.Should married couples put up financial collateral before they have children?
I completely agree that should be the case.





Why should people without children have to finance and subsidize everyone else's children.





I've only been married for about 5 years and we do want to have children, eventually.





However, we have both taken steps to ensure that we will not have an unplanned pregnancy (i.e. birth control for both her and me).





We wanted to make sure that we'd have a house, with a big fenced yard that our child could grow up in. We wanted to make sure that we were financilly stable enough to support a child before we had children.





Now we have the house with the fenced in yard (after 5 years of saving and planning). We're also finally financially stable enough to be able to properly support and take care of a child.





I feel that we have gone about it the responsible way.





However, because of the high taxes we pay for everyone else's children that we're made to support, we can't afford a nice romantic ';Get-a-way'; where we might have some fun trying to concieve...Should married couples put up financial collateral before they have children?
if this was the case human kind would die out


we do not have children because of finances (though it is good to have them in order)


You are not a parent, are you?
I don't think pregnancy can be planned well enough to require couples put up financial collateral...same thing with death...
Absolutely NOT!!
Who would enforce such a ';collateral';? How much do you propose should be put up? What class of people would be required to put up said collateral? There is no way to put a dollar amount on raising children and no way to enforce such a thing without infringing on freedoms and personal liberties. That is like saying people under a certain income should not be allowed to have children and we should call for class abortions and sterilization. I do not like that idea. You are never financially prepared for a child regardless of what your financial situation is.
No. There is no way of being completely prepared financially or otherwise for children....there just isn't. You can be financially responsible all you want, and have all the savings in the world, but that doesn't mean you are prepared for parenthood! You don't fully realize what you have gotten into until the child arrives. Being commited to being the best parents you can be is more important than any financial collateral.
I think people should have to have a test to determine their responsibility (financial or otherwise), their smarts, parenting skills, their common sense, etc.


If they don't pass the test or until they are old enough to take it (at least 18) there should be required birth control for every woman as soon as they hit puberty.


There are too many stupid, irresponsible people who have children.

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