Promiscuous Lifestyles Funded By The Taxpayer? - NO!

From: Heather Causnett, Escrick, York.
CHRIS Bond’s article (Yorkshire Post, November 21) about young mothers made me furiously angry and a little sad.
As long as society treats promiscuity and unwanted, unplanned, irresponsible motherhood as something to be accepted as normal when there is a ready answer, called contraception, free and available to all, we will continue to add to the generation of babies who do not know their own fathers, let alone live a normal family life with them. What chance do they have of a decent, normal upbringing?
The drain on our resources is enormous and there is no excuse at all. Why on earth young girls who cannot live without sleeping around don’t either get themselves sterilised or take regular contraception, I do not know, but to feel anything but contempt for them is using plasters to cover up one of our most serious, modern-day diseases.
To offer free housing, money for expenses and sympathy only encourages them to continue with their abysmal lifestyles.