Thursday, June 26, 2008

Parental Verification

As a loan officer I do a lot of verifying. In order to get into a house they need to verify a lot of things. Verify that you have a job, that you've continually have had a job, that you have money to pay closing costs, that that money didn't just 'appear' in your account one day, that you make your current mortgage/rent payments on time, that you have decent credit, that you don't already own homes we don't know about, that you don't owe the government (or anyone else for that matter) money, and the list goes on. Well it got me thinking the other day, what if you needed to go through a similar process in order to become a parent. What if before you had a child they need to verify some things. Like, do you have a job/income, do you have shelter, are you really the parent (for mothers and fathers, you never know what may be going on with science nowadays), can you feed a baby, can you change a baby, how you cope with the sound of a crying baby, if you can handle vomit, if you can run on little to no sleep, that you aren't in the mafia (that can't be good), that no crazy people are after you, that your inlaws are sane, and that list goes on. What if they held your baby at the hospital until they verified all these things. I mean, you have to go through quite a process just to prove that you can make a payment on a home don't you think you should prove you can handle being a parent. What other things do you think they should verify to become a parent?

2 comments:

  1. There should be a written test with questions like this:

    You should give your child beer _____
    a) at every meal
    b) for a special treat
    c) never

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  2. Oh, and if you fail you have to leave a few body parts at the front desk on the way out.

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