Parental Qualification Certificate - chapter 125

Jesse Simmer asked, “So, do you want the ‘Parental Qualification Certificate’ system to persist?”

Su Yutan shook her head again, “No, I hope it disappears soon.”

Jesse was very surprised, “I don’t quite understand! Don’t you support this system?”

Su Yutan replied, “I agree with the president of the Anti-Domestic Violence Foundation. We did not establish this system to discriminate among people, nor to prevent a certain type of people from leaving their bloodlines, but to force all people who want to be parents to take it seriously and learn how to be good parents.”

“If one day, without the constraints of the system, everyone would do it by themselves, then the system would have no value and would automatically disappear.”

Jesse stopped a moment, “Will there be such a day?”

Su Yutan shrugged, “I don’t know. Just like a thousand years ago, no one imagined whether the ‘Parental Qualification Certificate’ system could be established or not.”

“It’s true.” Jesse nodded thoughtfully. She started a new topic, “What about those who can’t pass the test but wanted to have children?”

Su Yutan easily replied, “The first way they can do is to donate their own gene cells. Perhaps one or two decades later, a girl or young man would come over and say to them,Hi, I am your daughter or son.”

“You don’t have to bear the parenting responsibilities but you can have your own bloodline descendants, isn’t it?

“That’s what I did. It was just an accident. I met my eldest daughter in advance.”

Jesse smiled, “This is indeed a good way. What about the second way?”

Su Yutan replied, “The second method is when I also set an example. When I passed the ‘Parental Qualification Certificate’, I was still a grade 6 latent trauma patient, so when I passed the exam it was called a ‘miracle’.”

“Why can I get the certificate, and those who are not as sick as I am can’t get the certificate? I think they should reflect on their problems rather than complaining about the system.”

“Find the problems, solve them and give birth to children when you are ready. It’s better for them as well as for their children.”

At the end of the interview that day, Jesse broadcasted another documentary, which showed the materials of various cases of infringing on the rights of minors for many years, and the commentary was Su Yutan’s “Why Do We Need Parental Certificates?”

When Su Yutan bid farewell to Jesse, a nice voice was reading that part of the text;

When referring to the word parent, people often use words such as greatness and selflessness.

I admit that most parents deserve such praise.

But as a victim of the Xu Zhenni case, as a person who had been working as a social worker, I also want to say: not all parents have that quality.

Some parents’ harm their children and may even make them think ‘I would rather you did not give birth to me’.

Faced with such complaints, some parents reflect on themselves, while others push their faults on their children or others and consider themselves as right.

Are such people eligible to be parents?

I think in an age like this, they are not.

What qualities should you have as a parent?

First, before you decide to have children, you must ask yourself: Why should I have children?

If you have children just to follow the crowd, to compare with others, because others have children, so you must have them then, please let the child go!

If you have a child, for some purpose, such as to alleviate family conflicts and obtain financial benefits then, please let the child go!

If you have a child because you like children.

Then you have the preliminary qualifications to be a parent.

The most important thing to be a qualified parent is that you love your child should come from the bottom of your heart.

Because children are very weak before they grow up, you need to pay a lot of time, energy, money, and intelligence to take care of them and protect them.

Your love for children is the source of all your efforts.

Without this source of motivation, it will be too hard to pay such efforts. You will lack patience and you will become increasingly irritable and distressed because of all the troubles your child brings. Raising a child will become your burden; being raised by you will become a child’s misery.

To be a qualified parent, love is not enough. You should also be knowledgeable.

You need basic health knowledge to know how to reduce a child’s risk of contracting an illness.

You need to have basic knowledge in psychology to understand how to help, guide, and protect your children.

If your child goes bad, becomes negative,becomes unhappy, as you continue to watch as he or she goes further and further on the wrong, dangerous, and dark road, but are helpless, even ignorant about it, then you are really not qualified to be parents.

In life, you will always encounter difficulties and bumps. Therefore, to be a qualified parent, you must have a strong mind.

You should at least do one thing: no matter what difficulties and adversities you are in, don’t vent your anger, resentment, and temper at your child, because the child is more innocent and helpless than you.

I don’t expect those who are of low moral character to think wholeheartedly about their children. That is unrealistic.

I count on the ‘Parental Qualification Certificate’ system, because it can filter those who are not eligible to be parents to get the chance to hurt their children.

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When Su Yutan stepped out of the studio, Qiao Wangchuan was waiting for her outside.

She went over, took his hand, and said to him, “Let’s go chase the sun!”

The so-called “chasing the sun” was a romantic activity unique to the UFO era.

Near the sunset longitude of the earth, sitting on a flying saucer flying backwards at the linear speed of the earth’s rotation, one could see that the sunset was hanging in the sky, as if catching up with the setting sun.

“Okay! Let’s go chase the sun.” Qiao Wangchuan said pettingly.

The two sat on the flying saucer, applied for the “sun chasing route”, and flew towards the longitude of the sunset at this time.

Sitting in a flying saucer, looking at the beautiful sunset that seemed to be unable to fall in the sky, Su Yutan said to Qiao Wangchuan, “Do you know why I suddenly wanted to chase the sun today?”

“Why?”

“Because I remember the myth of Kuafu’s pursuit of the sun. Kuafu’s pursuit of the sun was often used to describe unrealistic dreams. Today I hope that the ‘Parent’s Qualification Certificate’ system will one day disappear. As thousands years ago they built this to realise dream of Kuafu’s pursuit.”

Qiao Wangchuan smiled and said, “But we can already catch up with the sun today. It can be seen that such dreams are not so unrealistic.”

Miao:

Kuafu (Chinese: 夸父; pinyin: Kuāfù; Wade–Giles: K’ua-fu) is a giant in Chinese mythology who wished to capture the Sun

One day, Kuafu decided to chase and catch the Sun. He followed the Sun from the East to the West, draining the Yellow River and the Wei River (all rivers and lakes crossing his path) to quench his burning thirst. However, the big rivers were also unable to quench his thirst, and as he searched for more water, he eventually died of dehydration.

In one version, Kuafu turns into a mountain range

(source: wikipedia)

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