Microchips in children although may be a very good idea is impractical and will not be useful. Many believe that giving a number to children, like animals, would be helpful in exactly identifying a child; however there are many complications in order for the process to work. A parent must register the child, and keep the database up to date. .
The main motivation behind placing a computer chip in a child is to protect them, and stop some kidnappings or murders, but that is not the case. In every instance of a technological advance, there has been a way to go around the advantage. It was once said that the public would not be able to copy their compact disks. Now anyone in the United States can drive to the local electronic store and buy a CD rewriters and copy virtually anything to a CD. By the time that complete micro chipping on children could take place signal inhibitors, a fictitious device today, would be out to block any reading of the chip. .
History has proven that exact identification of any person is very detrimental. Take the case of the holocaust; the Jewish community that was taken prisoner during WWII all was assigned a personal identification numbers as a way of tracking all individuals, in which, over 6 million Jewish people were killed during that time. If any system were in place to track individuals, or collect information to place in a database, this information could be sorted by race, religion, or background, in which nothing would stop any individual or country on their conquest in yet another ethnic cleansing. In which all the information needed to find a specific group would be at their fingertips.
Although the benefits seen to out way any harm that chipping might induce, placing any permanent identification that will allow anyone to find a child would be neglectful "harmful and outright wrong. The complication of maintaining such a system, the ease of being able to side step the technological advances, and the proven track record that the human race has shown; our children would be safer without micro chipping.
