Is it morally ok to euthanize your first born child if they misbehave?
105093
No, you just have times when you wish it was OK.  That was spoken like a true parent...
469516
Doing the right thing is doing what's best for the child.  Your child deserves a good life and if, as you've said, you can't provide her with that, you did the right and brave thing by giving her an opportunity to get a good life.  You're a better mother than most in your situation.  They keep their kids and then their kids grow up to resent their mothers and themselves for the life they have.  I think you should be proud of yourself, and since you still get to see your daughter, be honest with her about what you want for her.  She'll be proud of you, too!
849722
Yes, it's a very cruel and inhumane procedure. The doctor pulls the baby out and pokes a hole in it's skull to empty the brains. The skull is then crushed. If you are considering it please think of your baby. It is an alive being. Think about putting your baby up for adoption, instead.
773408
Yes, I feel it is perfectly ethical. You are desposing of a parasite that can't survive outside the womb. Without an abortion, it is adding another unwanted child to this already overpopulated world.
380847
No!  You are NOT wrong to do this!  Congratulations on helping our young people learn responsibility and do things for themselves. \n\nIf you hadn't done this, you would be enabling her through the rest of her life.\n\nGood Job!
709786
Oh, please state your source. I'd love to hear the details of a case where parents were convicted (of what, you don't say) for having a deformed baby.\n\nNo one has a right to a "meaningful life." Life is what you make it. The only promises you have is that if someone does something to you (rape, theft, murder, etc.), they may be punished by the law.\n\n.
855549
Abortion is immorally wrong and legally protected. That's life...err...death. You make a good point though.\n\nTHE PROMLEM though, is that such a law could easily be used by deadbeat dads to refuse child support.
575254
I had witnessed it first hand dozens of times and I would NEVER put any child through that.\n\nI do think it is morally wrong especially since it has little to no health benefit.  People are having it done simply for looks.\n\nWell, the infant screams in blood gurgling pain at the time of circumcision and while the child will not remember the pain that does not mean that it did not happen.\n\nI have witnessed docs that refuse to do it because they refuse to purposely harm a patient that is not part of a treatment.
14245
I, as a parent, don't try and ruin my childs life.  Indeed not.  I try and ensure that my ch ild is able to make the most reasonable decisions for their safety, education and wellbeing.  If that contradicts with what the child wants, then so be it.  I, as the parent, often know what is best for my child.  And, if that means my child hates me for it, i know that one day that will change, and they will grow up and see that what i did was for their own good :)\n\nParents don't ruin lives, chances are, teenagers and kids do that well enough on their own :)
102070
it wrong becaus i agree with the others it's murder and people shouldnt just have one because the realize they dont want 2 have a baby anymore, but wat about people who have been raped and is have just found out that there having a rapists baby how horrible would u feel, the memories flooding back thats really a more apropiate reason 2 have an abortion i no it's cruel but could u handel that staring in2 the kid (and even havin 2 tell him y he has no father) and see how much a like the kid looks like the rapist....
164631
The baby has done nothing wrong.  It has not even had the chance to sense anything.  To cut that short is wrong.  I know there is a lot of pain in life, but there is also so much joy.  The innocent have the right to experience it and make choices.  And if you believe in pre destination, that aborted baby might grow up to cure AIDS, or something.\n\nThose on death row under sentence to die have made some horrible choices and choices have consequences.  (The Bible says,"You reap what you sow.")  Why should a person's life fall outside the jurisdiction of this principle?  In capital punishment, the victim had a choice made for them, society in an effort to legislate morality makes the decision to compensate for the loss of a life.\n\nThe difference is in the choices made.  Unborn have no say so in it.  The condemned made their choice.
576876
I see nothing wrong with disipline. I personally use all options before I spank my child but my child does not act like that. My daughter will walk up to a kid in a store that is being rude to their parents and tell them that they better be glad they have the parents they do cause hers would spank her nomatter who was around. My hubby and I were in line at the bank and was watching a kid disrespect both his parents and hit his mom. My hubby commented just loud enough for the parents to hear that if that had been our child acting that way in public he would have knocked the living life out of them. The parents heard him and grabbed the child and left.
308221
it's supposed to be ask A question, not two dozen of them, lol. are you a philosophy major? ;) (if not, you might consider it....)\n\npersonally i like to believe that people innately have a sense of right and wrong, that we naturally are inclined to assume the best in others rather than go around killing and maiming. not sure that's the case, though. is it our first instinct to step on a spider? or only after we've been stung or bitten or harmed?\n\npart of me thinks that being mean is taught by other people, so maybe these two would be child-like in their curiosity and interest and willingness to assume the best in one another. or, maybe they'd be so used to fending for themselves that the self-interest gene would kick into high gear. certainly they'd be leery of another person.\n\nif morality requires empathy, and empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in the situation of others, then before they meet they aren't immoral, exactly, but rather amoral -- there's no need to know right and wrong, since there are no other people to be affected by their actions. in fact, it's hard to imagine even having a concept of yourself until there's another person to see yourself as being distinct from.\n\nin reality human contact in the earliest weeks after birth seems to be essential for moral development. children with reactive attachment disorder (from neglect or abuse or lack of nurturing) as an infant are the ones who grow up to be sociopaths, with absolutely zero regard for other people.\n\nfun stuff!
242339
I do provide and improve alternatives. I'm a social worker that helps pregnant women for this reason.\n\nBut is killing a baby acceptable because of all your reasons? Expensive adoption? The birthmother doesn't pay, and there's a 10 million couple wait for an expensive adoption.\n\nFoster system? No need. Infants are easily adoptable, and apparantly these couples on the waiting list can endure the expenses. \n\nRegardless if your  examples were real or not, none of your reasons justify killing innocent unborn people.  \n\nPeriod.
565393
I think so. For instance, your child has been bitten by a snake and the antedote is behind the window of a store that is closed because it's after business hours.  What are you going to do?  Stealing is wrong, but of course you aren't going to let your child die.  You are going to tear into that place and save your baby!\n\nThere are times when rules are meant to be broken.
265808
I don't think that this should determine or have any effect on the question of morality here.  The fact is that natural childbirth can cause tearing, sometimes very severe tearing.
211630
No....when a child is born the mind and attitudes are like a blank page and the parents are the most responsible people for shaping the behavior of the child. Here is an example...when I was a very young child I would go out to play and if I saw a scotter that belonged to the next door neighbors child but no one was using it I thought it would be ok for me to take the scooter and play with it and bring it home as mine. I felt no sense of stealing what did not belong to me. I did not know what the word steal meant.....until my mom said to me what the heck I was doing stealing the neighbos children toys !! Then she explained to me what private property and stealing and hurting someone by stealing their property meant,and I never stole anything again !!