I’m sitting around a bonfire with my sister in law, brother and their friends (most of whom I’ve never met before) and we get into the topic of having children. My SIL then spouts out her “philosophy” of what society should do.

If you want to have a child you need to be assessed in the same way someone looking to adopt would be. You need to meet requirements like having a solid job, making a certain amount to take care of a family and a background check that shows you have no history with abusing children and such.

Well what about when people make mistakes, what about rape? Her answer is that if you get pregnant without being “cleared” you should not be able to keep the baby and that child will then be given to someone who is unable to have children.

So then everyone starts agreeing with her, even my brother. 😵 They are adding in things like you should also take a general knowledge test to make sure you are intelligent enough to have a child and how if someone breaks the rule of having kids without going through “the process” more than once they should be sterilized.

My husband and i are sitting there like

I talked to my brother about it later and he said he was only agreeing because his wife would get mad if he called her out in public. 🙄 And that she just has some strong opinions but there’s nothing wrong with that. It literally made me see her as a different person.

My question is, does anyone else agree with this?! Do other people actually feel/think this way? I felt like a crazy person being the only one shocked. I was told this was a popular opinion and I “didn’t get it.”

EDIT: I am posting anon as I have a lot of real life friends I know on glow who also know my brother and I don’t want him to get shit through me, even though I do think there’s a lot of problems with him not sticking up for things clearly wrong against his wife. Should this be moved to rant? I’ve never posted before; sorry. 😬