Well, we do have laws in place to assure that people who have shown themselves to be unsuitable parents are no longer allowed to raise their children. It is definitely a flawed system, but I don't think it's fair to say that anyone do whatever they want to their child and get away with it. I think it would be absurd and borderline authoritarian to require people to get some sort of certification or license before having a child. Because even in the example of say, a hairdresser, anyone can still cut hair. There's no law that
forbids you from cutting hair. There's also no law that forbids you from selling your own house without a real estate agent. The regulations are in place to assure that customers can choose a hairdresser or real estate agent who knows what they're doing. The licenses aren't a requirement to practice the profession, in most cases, but they are a requirement if you want real customers. Even so, licensed hairdressers can be bad hairdressers. If you had to get a license to have children, you could still end up being a bad parent. And if you couldn't get a license to be a parent, but you had a child anyway, what would happen? Would you get that child automatically taken away and put in foster care?
It is a tragic story about the poor little girl who died. I feel for the rest of her family.
But we shouldn't go overboard in reaction to events like this by putting the government in charge of deciding who can be a parent and who can't be one.