Children Having Children
These “children” happen to be 13-21 year old girls in foster care in New York City.
Guess what the solution to this problem should be, according to liberals.
More money!
“The really surprising thing in this report, first of all, is that there are so many foster care children that are having children,” said Betsy Gotbaum, the city’s public advocate. “The second concern is that there is a lack of standardized training for these kids and for their foster parents – and that is the city’s responsibility.”
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Still, Sharman Stein, director of communications for the agency, said she did not want to quibble about details. “Our focus has been on making sure that these young moms and moms-to-be have all the services they need,” she said, “and we have not focused as much on the overall number, which is always in flux.”
So it doesn’t matter how many unwed mothers there are, or if that number keeps increasing. After all, who are we to tell these girls to keep their legs closed? Let’s just keep sucking on the taxpayers teat. That pretty much sums up the ACLU’s view of teen pregnancy. They have filed a lawsuit on May 15 against HHS, accusing the Bush administration of spending federal tax dollars on an abstinence education program that promotes Christianity.
Now call me a cold-hearted bitch, but there is something to be said about shame and ostracism. Unfortunately though, there is no longer a stigma attached to birthing babies out of wedlock (or sleeping around for that matter). I mean, what business does a 13 year old unmarried girl in foster care have raising a child? It’s just a recipe for more crime. Apparently the crime rate for NYC school girls is now up, despite the overall decline of the city’s crime rate.
When will people learn?
May 19th, 2005 at 7:56 am
The problem is that liberal do-gooders refuse to pass judgement on kids because they don’t want to hurt the kids “self esteem”.
Well-what do they think that having a baby while still a baby will do?
May 19th, 2005 at 9:47 am
PJ O’Rourke once said one of the smartest things I ever heard about politics: Subsidize it and you get more of it, tax it and you get less of it. In our country, though, we tend to tax what we should want to increase (business innovation) and subsidize what we should want to decrease (babies out of wedlock).
I think this Reagan quote may have been the inspiration for O’Rourke’s observation but I’m not feeling scholarly enough this morning to track everything down properly: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
May 19th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
A lot of the fathers of the children of unwed teenage mothers are not teenage. They are at least in their 20s, and may be sexual predators. Maybe they are the ones who should be taxed!
May 20th, 2005 at 5:21 am
No Ron, they should be put in JAIL and if they don’t get a life sentence … CASTRATED. That’s what I like to call … a real soultion. End of THAT problem.
Next?
May 30th, 2005 at 12:34 am
Ron, I’m inclined to agree with Steel on this one, especially for those men who impregnate 13 year old girls.
December 16th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
Shaming thirteen year old girls or even sixteen year old children is not going to do anything except make them more rebellious and probably even dumber. It certainly won’t make them good mothers.
December 16th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
Shaming thirteen year old girls or even sixteen year old children is not going to do anything except make them more rebellious and probably even dumber. It certainly won’t make them good mothers. Shame the bastards who got them pregnant because these girls are getting punishment enough raising children with no support
December 16th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
Melody, as the saying goes, it takes two to tango. As I see if, young men will not repeatedly pursue girls if they are not given encouragement. As for the young girls in question, I’m going to say again, we have become to squeamish as a society in many ways. Utilizing shame is one example. Parents and educators seem more concerned with children’s self-esteem rather than teaching them right from wrong, and educating them.
But there’s even more. Thanks to the sexual revolution, being a young virgin, in this day and age, has become the equivalent of being a promiscous woman in the 1800′s. There is a tremendous amount of pressure for young girls to put out, and it’s not only coming from young men who want to sleep with them. As a young girl, I experienced it first hand, from other girls (many many years ago).
Melody, if you have a chance, you might want to read the book “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue” by Wendy Shalit. She addresses all these issues.