I can see where you are coming from but I'm not sure I'd like for the government to have that much say. If I had waited until I could afford kids, I may have never had them. lol
Once a child is created though, the biological parents should be the ones held responsible for sure. I've known plenty of dead beat parents over my lifetime. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder why they chose to have kids to start with.
Lol! The government doesn't know what it is doing and base things on the law rather than what is obvious. They take kids from parents because they can't support them but it was the government who made them like that by taking away jobs from them without giving them substitute or chance to work. On the other hand, they allow addicts to keep their kids because they have been rehabilitated and relies mainly on support from the government or organizations.
I've seen that too.