The things that make a good parent are almost as impossible to pin down quantitatively as the things that would make a responsible voter.
Education? Wealth? Background? Neighborhood? Come up with any category you can name, and I we can all find examples of someone with disadvantages in this area that are much better parents than someone with all the pieces in place. As just one example, obviously having material wealth is not a reliable marker for "good parent." When somebody talks to me about how great their parents were, it's quite common to have that combined with stories about how they had to scrape by when they were kids.
It's easier to come up with those few things that would make one a lousy parent, or voter, and make rules on that. Mental problems. Criminal records. Things like that. Theoretically, this is already covered under social protection programs, although that needs a lot of work in some areas.
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Same insurmountable problem as tests for voting...
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- Bored to death by her children...
- Just to play devil's advocate...
- Bored to death by their elderly parents...
- Freedom of choice
- 35 years ago Ann Landers conducted a poll.