You have to be voted in to become a politician.
You have to pass the bar to qualify as a lawyer.
You have to beat out the competition to be awarded the job.
But to become a parent you don’t have to do any of that.
Arguably the role that can inflict the most damage, currently, has no barriers to becoming one.
There are 90 year olds who are still struggling to undo the damage they suffered in childhood.
There are tyrants exacting revenge on the world for their love-less beginning in life.
As I sit on the train listening to a man threatening to beat his kids if they don’t shut up I wish there was an exam for Parenthood.
Thomas Duggan 