# Why Parenting Doesn't Require Any License

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**Created:** [August 20, 2022, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-parenting-doesnt-require-any-license/969981 "2022-08-20T07:33:22Z")\
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> [@Kent\_Clark](#):
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> You do [in Missouri](https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=193.085)

Also in Pennsylvania. While you don’t need anyone to do the service there, you do have to show evidence the marriage is not incestuous and I had to do a health check - for STDs. This was 45 years ago, don’t know if it is still true.

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