In Licensing Parents, Lafollette states that parents should have a license because “parenting is an activity potentially very harmful to children,” (Lafollette. Page 184) and should be regulated because of the harm that it can cause. But while Lafollette is explaining his idea of licensing parents, his article is flawed with causal claims and causes that makes his beliefs hard to digest. One example of the causal claims that Lafollette uses as evidences in his article is that adopted children are much less likely not be abused by their adopted parents than children who are raised by their biological parents. While Lafollette does cite a source entitled Violence Against Children that states that less 1% children who are adopted are abused