what should be the minimum i.q. in order to children

quantum of solace

Whatever number will enable you to complete a full sentence.

Interesting Q: what is the IQ someone should have to order children?

I'm very doubtful that artificially selecting for above average IQ would make the world a better place.

set a quantum wrote:

what should be the minimum i.q. in order to children

Probably high enough to know that "children" is not a verb.

Thou shalt not children!

Catchy slogan for a zero population advocacy group?

Thou shalt not children the Earth. better?

please don't use IQ as a gauge.

i'm around 130, my wife, 120. despite our efforts, we've been sub-par parents. i wish my kids could've been raised in a more typical home. they're wonderfully smart and are academically overachievers, but...

one's a recovering heroine addict, the other a video gamer who does nothing else

At least 150+. I am eligible for Mensa based on my 32 composite ACT and 1440 SAT (I would guess that my IQ is in the 130s although I have never been tested) and am still not smart enough to parent. I know that my intelligence is WELL BELOW AVERAGE as far as letsrunners go and this place has maybe two people capable of parenting.

Do you really need to be intelligent to be a good parent? I mean, as long as you can support your family financially, I don't think being a parent takes a lot of intellectual capacity. I mean it's not like particle physics or something. I know one of my old friends from high school, she's dumb as a nut but she's a great mom.

Critical Thinking wrote:

Do you really need to be intelligent to be a good parent? I mean, as long as you can support your family financially, I don't think being a parent takes a lot of intellectual capacity. I mean it's not like particle physics or something. I know one of my old friends from high school, she's dumb as a nut but she's a great mom.

In all seriousness, I think that you have the right idea.

Critical Thinking wrote:

Do you really need to be intelligent to be a good parent? I mean, as long as you can support your family financially, I don't think being a parent takes a lot of intellectual capacity. I mean it's not like particle physics or something. I know one of my old friends from high school, she's dumb as a nut but she's a great mom.

wrong. money has absolutely nothing with parenting. yes money helps provide worldly gifts, but it is unnecessary to being a good parent and raising your kids right.

SOME OF THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE THE BEST PARENTS, AND SOME OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE ARE THE WORST PARENTS.

smarty pants wrote:

please don't use IQ as a gauge.

i'm around 130, my wife, 120. despite our efforts, we've been sub-par parents. i wish my kids could've been raised in a more typical home. they're wonderfully smart and are academically overachievers, but...

one's a recovering heroine addict, the other a video gamer who does nothing else

You would think with around a 130 IQ you would know how to spell heroin. Especially if one of your children is an addict.

Wannabe parents should first be required to successfully raise a puppy... something high spirited and strong willed like a beagle or a siberian husky.

Once they're proved they can raise a well-adjusted, obedient, loving dog, they could then have children.

my wife had 3 abortions wrote:

Critical Thinking wrote:

… as long as you can support your family financially…

wrong. money has absolutely nothing with parenting. yes money helps provide worldly gifts, but it is unnecessary to being a good parent and raising your kids right.

SOME OF THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE THE BEST PARENTS, AND SOME OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE ARE THE WORST PARENTS.

Wait a minute… Are you saying that being able to support your family financially has nothing to do with parenting? Critical Thinking is not saying that you need to be rich to be a good parent, he is saying that you need to have enough money to provide food, clothing, shelter, etc. How could anyone be stupid enough to disagree with this? Are you trolling or just brain dead?

162430 wrote:

Wait a minute… Are you saying that being able to support your family financially has nothing to do with parenting? Critical Thinking is not saying that you need to be rich to be a good parent, he is saying that you need to have enough money to provide food, clothing, shelter, etc. How could anyone be stupid enough to disagree with this? Are you trolling or just brain dead?

parenting involves more than just throwing money at kids.

you sir, are the ones thats braindead.

el pasos finest wrote:

parenting involves more than just throwing money at kids.

No kidding. Who ever claimed otherwise?

you.

The minimum should be 145.

Every LetsRun poster would be able to have kids.

I think you're mistaking the part of the body involved in "[having] children."