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Re-education through labour...How about this? They put her and her children on a farm so they can lead productive lives and give back to the community. People helping people. Isn't that a real democracy?
Sounds like 'labour camps'How about this? They put her and her children on a farm so they can lead productive lives and give back to the community. People helping people. Isn't that a real democracy?
What farms? Privately owned farms are struggling to survive against agri-farms which dominate all our food production. They can't afford hired help and are usually family-run operations.
Republicans would never be allowed to reproduce!I meant they are unreliable as a predictor of parenting skills. It takes far more than intelligence. I'm sure there are some brilliant people who abuse their children as well. Too bad we don't have a test on the ability to love.
Republicans would never be allowed to reproduce!I meant they are unreliable as a predictor of parenting skills. It takes far more than intelligence. I'm sure there are some brilliant people who abuse their children as well. Too bad we don't have a test on the ability to love.
Easily offended are you? It was tongue in cheek. But what would happen if the government was allowed to determine someone's ability to love...might be fine if your side was in power but not if the other side was in power.Republicans would never be allowed to reproduce!I meant they are unreliable as a predictor of parenting skills. It takes far more than intelligence. I'm sure there are some brilliant people who abuse their children as well. Too bad we don't have a test on the ability to love.
Ravi, I'll defend your ass when someone calls you a racist. But that post is just fucking offensive.
A good deal of the problem will go away once we stop treating unwed, unemployed motherhood as a career choice.
So what career choices does an unwed, unemployed mother have?
And I'm not talking about a 45 yo plastic surgeon that happened to drop a kid between doing a boob-job and a butt-lift because she began to feel maternal.
I'm talking about the majority of unwed, unemployed mothers: poor, uneducated, young.
How would you suggest these people begin an alternative career?
I'm suggesting that having a babies in order to get housing vouchers and money to move away from (stereotypically for a good reason) their own single mothers is not a something we should be encouraging teenage girls to do.
Keeping them in school to get an education so they can have some choices to lead a self-sufficient life would be far better for them and society.
A good deal of the problem will go away once we stop treating unwed, unemployed motherhood as a career choice.
So what career choices does an unwed, unemployed mother have?
And I'm not talking about a 45 yo plastic surgeon that happened to drop a kid between doing a boob-job and a butt-lift because she began to feel maternal.
I'm talking about the majority of unwed, unemployed mothers: poor, uneducated, young.
How would you suggest these people begin an alternative career?
First get a high school diploma or GED. Then take specialty courses available in a myriad of facilities, such as free community adult learning centers for such careers as data processing, secretarial, paralegal, bookkeeping (yeah, it still exists in non-computerized form). There are training centers to become hair stylists, even courses to qualify for a CDL to become over-the-road drivers. In Vermont we have a program called "Reach Up" which trains women to become professional painters, drywall installers, carpenters. They can learn. The problem becomes once they get a job, how secure will it be? Which is a whole 'nuther topic.
So what career choices does an unwed, unemployed mother have?
And I'm not talking about a 45 yo plastic surgeon that happened to drop a kid between doing a boob-job and a butt-lift because she began to feel maternal.
I'm talking about the majority of unwed, unemployed mothers: poor, uneducated, young.
How would you suggest these people begin an alternative career?
I'm suggesting that having a babies in order to get housing vouchers and money to move away from (stereotypically for a good reason) their own single mothers is not a something we should be encouraging teenage girls to do.
Keeping them in school to get an education so they can have some choices to lead a self-sufficient life would be far better for them and society.
You realise, I'm not expecting a 50 page comprehensive report, but it sounds like you think having 15 kids and living in a dump is something to which teenage girls all aspire, and that there may be some effort towards getting them to NOT to do anything else!
This is absurd.
But it is an effective way to dodge the question of what to do about the career choices YOU MENTIONED, for poor, unwed, unemployed wimmin.
"However, DCF Spokesman Nick Cox said Adams was hostile, showed no gratitude, and demanded more and more entitlements. In court, Adams said she was glad to have the home but wanted all of the social workers and agencies out of her life."
Typical attitude of the big government lovin' wipe my butt for me because I expect it person. The government should tell her to go pound sand.
I'm suggesting that having a babies in order to get housing vouchers and money to move away from (stereotypically for a good reason) their own single mothers is not a something we should be encouraging teenage girls to do.
Keeping them in school to get an education so they can have some choices to lead a self-sufficient life would be far better for them and society.
You realise, I'm not expecting a 50 page comprehensive report, but it sounds like you think having 15 kids and living in a dump is something to which teenage girls all aspire, and that there may be some effort towards getting them to NOT to do anything else!
This is absurd.
But it is an effective way to dodge the question of what to do about the career choices YOU MENTIONED, for poor, unwed, unemployed wimmin.
It starts with one kid. The mother didn't have a litter, bub.
"However, DCF Spokesman Nick Cox said Adams was hostile, showed no gratitude, and demanded more and more entitlements. In court, Adams said she was glad to have the home but wanted all of the social workers and agencies out of her life."
Typical attitude of the big government lovin' wipe my butt for me because I expect it person. The government should tell her to go pound sand.
Should the State take her Kids?...
peace...
Are you advocating a lifestyle choice for unwed teens that you would not wish to your own daughter to choose?
Our current public policy encourages poor teenage girls to be unwed mothers.
You aren't reading what I posted.
I am advocating for getting rid of policies which encourage teeangers to be unwed mothers in the first place.
Yes They do and our attitudes toward unmarried women giving their children up for adoption should change as well. I had a near stranger hug and thank me once for calling her loving and selfless. She was a 19 year old kid who was giving her future baby to a couple in CA. She said I was the only person who had said that to her (ex her boyfriend). These young women are angels in my opinion.