Nearly 40,000 teenage pregnancies in 2004 - the last year for which we have the figures. 'So what', you ask? - Well, let us examine what surveys clearly show to be the social consequences.
These offspring who are not butchered by abortionists are: more likely to fail in school, turn to crime, take drugs and to perpetuate this cycle. Do we not have enough single parent families where this is nobody's fault without adding to the problem? - Apparently not, as successive governments, especially those of a leftwing hue, have conspired to make the situation worse.
They have achieved this by insisting that it is a question of "education". Rubbish! I would wager that there was not a single, mentally competent girl in that 40,000 who did not know that sex has consequences.
Except of course, today these consequences are few - that is the problem. Shame has been abolished; abortions are there as a safety net; a house and an income are the "prize" for many and society is too politically correct to be "judgemental".
There is also blame to apportion beyond governments to: the irresponsible media, schools who preach "do whatever you like but try to avoid the consequences", shockingly poor parenting, a Church which is weak, silent and generally pathetic - all this against a hedonistic backcloth.
The highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe? Funny how the only lists this country seems to top are always the wrong ones!
The feminist left insist that there are so many dysfunctional two parent families that single parents are to be welcomed. This argument is as crass as it is disingenuous.
LINK: http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/post.php
