The Children's Era

When looking over the different texts that out English 201 could choose from, a few caught my eye. While I would have liked to analyze the Texas Declaration of Independence, it seemed to me that it would be too obvious, that it was almost expected of me in a sense. I like switching things up. Call me dangerous.
As I was perusing through the different speeches I remember my instructor talking about one of the authors of the the texts being a proponent of eugenics(eugenicist?). I was faintly familiar with the term and philosophy, having read a Wikipedia entry during a dull day at work.
Some time later, the topic came up in a conversation between my mother and I about it being a law that a license should be necessary to have kids. This wasn't the first time we've talked about it and I initially agreed with her that we should have a license to have kids. Shit, after all we need a license to get married, we should at least need a license to bring a person into this world.
A little background: my mother works as a caseworker for foster kids, their parents and foster parents. So in her line of work, she sees her fair share of fucked up kids and inept parents. Maybe this has helped ground her philosophy, but she might of had this idea before her job.
Anyways, having this conversation again, after reading the Wikipedia entry I decided that licensing people to have kids was a form of soft(?) eugenics that a society could not practice and be morally sound.
Reading further down Sanger's speech, she asks the same question that I did and that is who or what would be the one to decide who is fit to have children and what ruler do you use to measure? Needless to say I couldn't convince her.