A Charleston, S.C., city councilman suggests sterilizing parents could be one way to address society's problem of children running amok.

"What we've got is a failure in society, whether it's in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it's on the East Side with poor crackhead parents," Councilman Larry Shirley told the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Ledger.

"We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs. ... Once they have a child and it's running the streets, to let them continue to have children is totally unacceptable."

Shirley said sterilizations should also be mandated for deadbeat dads.

Love it. Love. It. Think about it - think about the effort a good household goes through in order to adopt a child. It can take years, with investigations, background checks etc. Not to mention people like me, who know we'd be bad parents, but have to go through psych exams in order to be sterilized.

Why should the irresponsible morons of the world be allowed to spread and breed with impunity? No, I'm not talking about the family with four children where one of them turns into a bad apple. I'm talking about the irresponsible sluts who can't keep their knees together, pop out a neglected brat every year, and sit at home on welfare while their kids join gangs or take drugs or turn to some other sort of crime. We have to stop rewarding these people and start punishing them.