Random ponderings...
Apr. 4th, 2006 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynThis case, and a conversation with ksirafai over the weekend has got me pondering.
There are a series of Science Fiction novels by Lois McMaster Bujold about an assortment of futuristic societies. One society - Beta Colony - has a series of laws about child rearing. Everyone is compulsorarily fitted with a contraceptive implant at puberty, and should they wish to produce children they are required to prove to the government that they are financially able to support a child, have a support structure about them, and pass a parenting test before the implant may be removed. The same procedure has to be gone through for every child a person wishes to have.
Is this a utopia or a dystopia?
ksirafai over the weekend has got me pondering.There are a series of Science Fiction novels by Lois McMaster Bujold about an assortment of futuristic societies. One society - Beta Colony - has a series of laws about child rearing. Everyone is compulsorarily fitted with a contraceptive implant at puberty, and should they wish to produce children they are required to prove to the government that they are financially able to support a child, have a support structure about them, and pass a parenting test before the implant may be removed. The same procedure has to be gone through for every child a person wishes to have.
Is this a utopia or a dystopia?
